Pius Parsch

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Memorial plaque Catholic parish church Floridsdorf

Pius Parsch CRSA (born May 18, 1884 in Neustift bei Olmütz , Moravia ; † March 11, 1954 in Klosterneuburg , Lower Austria ) was an Augustinian canon and Catholic priest who made a significant contribution to the liturgical movement through his journalistic work .

Life

Johann Parsch was baptized on May 25, 1884. He attended the grammar school in Olomouc. In 1904 he joined as a novice in the Stift Klosterneuburg , where he on 28 August clothed was and the religious name assumed Pius. He was ordained a priest in 1909 and was an auxiliary priest in the parish Maria Treu ( Vienna VIII ) until 1913 . In 1911 Parsch received his doctorate in theology from the University of Vienna . From 1914 he taught pastoral theology at the house educational institution of the pin and helped in the formation of novices.

When he was field curate on the Eastern Front from May 1915 until the end of the First World War , he got to know the liturgy of the Orthodox churches . P. Parsch decided to make the Bible a book for the people and the liturgy for everyone. After returning to the monastery, he began taking Bible courses for the novices. From 1922 he celebrated community masses in the Church of St. Gertrud (Klosterneuburg), at which parts of the Holy Mass were sung by the people in German ( Betsing Mass ). He wanted to achieve a more active participation of the fellow celebrants and a return to early Christianity. These celebrations are considered to be the hour of birth of the liturgical movement in Austria. A breakthrough came in 1933 when a praying mass was celebrated at the Vienna Catholic Day.

In order to spread the biblical and liturgical renewal more widely, Parsch founded a publishing house as well as the Augustinus-Druckerei in 1928 and from 1926 published the magazine Bibel und Liturgie and from 1928 the magazine Lebe mit der Kirche . Before the Second World War he was a member of the Working Group for Religious Peace , which campaigned for cooperation with National Socialism . On September 28, 1938, Cardinal Theodor Innitzer banned all priests from membership in this working group. The National Socialists abolished Klosterneuburg Abbey in 1941, destroyed the printing works and banned liturgical publications. Parsch worked as a pastor in the parish church of Floridsdorf in Vienna- Floridsdorf during the Nazi era and was only able to resume his offices in the monastery in 1946. In 1950 he founded the Klosterneuburg Bible Apostolate, which published cheap editions of the Bible and introductions to the Holy Scriptures. At the Eucharistic Congress in Barcelona Parsch suffered a stroke from which he did not recover.

It is thanks to the work of Pius Parsch that the content of the liturgical movement was made accessible to a broad public. The emphasis on the biblical component of the liturgy was also important to him.

In 1965 the Pius-Parsch-Platz in Vienna- Floridsdorf (21st district) was named after him.

Works (excerpt)

  • The year of salvation . 3 volumes, 1923
  • Short explanation of the measurement . 1930
  • Sacrifice with the Church . 3 volumes (missal), 1930
  • Learn to understand the fair . 1931
  • Liturgical Renewal 1931
  • From the Church's prayer book . 5 volumes. Folk liturgical apostolate, Klosterneuburg 1931/33
  • The morning service in Holy Week . Folk liturgical apostolate, Klosterneuburg 1938
  • Breviary school for laypeople . Volksliturgischer Verlag, Vienna et al. 1939
  • with Robert Kramreiter : New Church Art in the Spirit of Liturgy , Volksliturgischer Verlag Wien-Klosterneuburg 1939. (Translated into Spanish by Moises Diaz Caneja: Arquitectura Y liturgia 1948.)
  • Folk liturgy . Volksliturgischer Verlag, Klosterneuburg-Vienna 1940
  • The liturgical sermon . 10 volumes, 1948–55

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personal data
SURNAME Parsch, Pius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parsch, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Augustinian canon and Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustift (Nové Sady) near Olomouc in Moravia
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1954
Place of death Klosterneuburg , Lower Austria