Fr. Steven Frederick Schmieder, EP
Biography
Fr. Steven Frederick Schmieder was born on February 20, 1961. Providence led him to join the spiritual family that would later form the Heralds of the Gospel in 1979.
He did his theological and philosophical training at the São Tomás de Aquino Course in São Paulo, Brazil. Besides this, he has received a License in Humanities from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in Santiago, Dominican Republic. And in 2010 he received his Licentiate (Master’s degree) in Canon Law from the Pontificia Università di San Tommaso d’Aquino in Rome.
Moreover, he has completed a Special Course on the Internal Forum at the Apostolic Penitentiary at the Vatican and an Intensive Course on the Graviora Delicta reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Pontificia Università Urbaniana at the Vatican.
Fr. Steven is a founding member of the International Association of Christ’s Faithful of Pontifical Right Heralds of the Gospel and of the Clerical Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right Virgo Flos Carmeli. He was ordained a deacon in 2006 and the following year he was ordained a priest.
For 11 years (2001-2012) he has served as an Administrative Consultant of the Irmandade de São Bento of the Heralds of the Gospel. From 2009-2011 he served as the Vicar of the Chiesa di San Benedetto in Piscinula in Rome, Italy. Besides this from 2005-2012 he served as the Personal Assistant to the Archpriest of the Pontifical Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
He is currently a Professor of Canon Law at the International House of Studies of Virgo Flos Carmeli at the São Tomás de Aquino Theological Institute and a Librarian at the same institute. Since 2017, he has preached at various Retreats around the globe and contributed to several radio and television programs about Catholic themes.
Get to know my Courses:
This course grew out of Fr. Steven’s enthusiasm for the timeless writings of the great Catholic writers on the spiritual life and today’s ever more pressing need to increase awareness on the fundamental themes of salvation and eternal destiny, life and death and so forth.
The outcome is not just a course on Eschatology commenting on the Four Last Ends of Man: Death, Judgment, Heaven or Hell. But rather, it’s a course designed to change your outlook on life, to transform your existence and, above all, to prepare you for eternity. After all, the secret to dying well is living well in the first place — knowing how to care for our own soul.
“So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
I’m certain you agree with me: if there’s one thing that every single person seeks and desires without limits, it is happiness. I’m also sure you’ll agree with me that if there’s one thing that’s common to all of us, it’s that our quest for happiness is never satisfied. But to find true happiness, we have a stairway to climb, and the steps of this stairway are called the virtues.
God calls us to friendship with Him. And the way to make friends with God Himself is through the “Theological Virtues” – faith, hope, and charity.
