How the Latin Mass Returned to Roman Trier
by Stefan Schilling
A German medical doctor relates how he fell in love with the traditional liturgy – and how he became embroiled in a decade-long struggle to win permission for the Mass to be celebrated in the ancient city of Trier, founded by the Roman Emperor Augustus and Catholic since the time of Constantine.
s I was born in 1963 -- during the convocation of the Second Vatican
Council -- I never actually experienced the traditional liturgy during my childhood. I grew up in a good Catholic family in a modern suburban community outside Mainz (a small city in central western Germany). In my parents' house and in our local parish, we followed the new, post-conciliar liturgy of Paul VI.
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