Embedded in the video below is Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s lecture given at the Pax Liturgica Meeting at the Augustinianum in Rome on October 27, 2023. The venerable Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Mary in Astana spoke on the subject, “The Principle of Tradition in the Liturgical Life of the Church.”
The Rorate Caeli site has published the transcript of the talk.
The Roman Church is the mother and teachers of all other particular churches because of the primacy of St. Peter and his successors, the Roman Pontiffs. From the beginning the Roman church was inherently committed to keep and transmit in all her life, both doctrinal and liturgical, her fidelity to tradition, or to the divine principle of tradition. Famous became the phrase of Pope Stephen I (who reigned from 254 to 257): “Let nothing be innovated which has not been handed down” (nihil innovetur nisi quod traditum est).[1] Eusebius of Caesarea wrote in his Ecclesiastical History that pope Stephen was thinking that one ought not to make any innovation contrary to the tradition that had prevailed from the beginning.[2] …. [Read more…]
