Pius Parsch

Pius Parsch ( born May 18, 1884 in Neustift near Olomouc, Moravia, † March 11, 1954 in Klosterneuburg, Lower Austria ) was Augustinian Canons and Catholic priest who contributed through his journalistic work a significant contribution to the liturgical movement.

Life

John Parsch was baptized on 25 May 1884. He attended high school in Olomouc. In 1904 he entered as a novice in the Augustinian Abbey of Klosterneuburg, where he took the habit on August 28th and took the religious name Pius. In 1909 he was ordained a priest and was until 1913 temporary priest in the parish of Maria Treu (Vienna VIII). 1911 doctorate Parsch Doctor of Theology at the University of Vienna. From 1914 he taught pastoral theology at the home school associated with the pin and helped in the formation of the novices.

When he was chaplain on the Eastern Front in May 1915 to the end of the First World War, he became acquainted with the liturgy of the Orthodox churches know. P. Parsch decided to make the Bible a book for the people and the liturgy understandable for all. After his return to the monastery, he began with Bible courses for novices. From 1922 he celebrated community fairs in the Church of St. Gertrud ( Klosterneuburg ), in which parts of the Mass were sung by the people in the German language ( Betsingmesse ). He wanted to achieve a more active participation of the celebrants and a return to primitive Christianity. These celebrations are regarded as the birth of the liturgical movement in Austria. A breakthrough came in 1933, when a Betsingmesse was celebrated at Vienna's Catholic.

To spread the biblical and liturgical renewal stronger, founded in 1928 Parsch a publisher as well as the Augustine - printing and issued in 1926, the magazine Bible and liturgy, and in 1928 the magazine catering to the church out. Before the Second World War he was a member of the working group for the religious peace, spoke in favor of collaboration with the Nazis. Cardinal Theodor Innitzer banned on September 28, 1938 all priests membership in this Association. The National Socialists in 1941 raised the Stift Klosterneuburg on, destroyed the printing and prohibited liturgical publications. Parsch worked in the Nazi period as a pastor in the parish church in Vienna Floridsdorf Floridsdorf and could take until 1946 his offices in the pen again. In 1950 he founded the Biblical Apostolate Klosterneuburger that issued cheap editions of the Bible and introductions to the Scriptures. At the Eucharistic Congress in Barcelona P. Parsch suffered a stroke from which he never recovered.

The work of Pius Parschs it is thanks to them that contents of the liturgical movement were made available to the public. The emphasis of the biblical component of the liturgy was a major concern to him.

In 1965 in Vienna Floridsdorf ( 21st district ) of Pius Parsch square was named after him.

Works (excerpt)

  • The year of salvation. 3 volumes, 1923
  • Short Meßerklärung. 1930
  • Sacrifice the Church. 3 volumes ( Missal ), 1930
  • Learn to understand the show. 1931
  • Liturgical Renewal 1931
  • From the prayer book of the Church. 5 volumes. People Liturgical Apostolate, Klosterneuburg 1931/33
  • The morning service of Holy Week. People Liturgical Apostolate, Klosterneuburg 1938
  • Breviary school for laymen. Volksliturgischer Verlag, Wien et al 1939
  • With Robert Kramreiter. 's New Church Art in the Spirit of the Liturgy, Volksliturgischer Verlag Vienna - Klosterneuburg, 1939 ( by Moises Diaz Caneja translated into Spanish: Arquitectura Y liturgia 1948. )
  • People's liturgy. Volksliturgischer Verlag, Klosterneuburg, Vienna 1940
  • The liturgical preaching. 10 volumes, 1948-55
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