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Another Roman Mass Abolished: St. Joseph Parish in Missouri

The parish St Joseph in Westphalia, Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, will stop celebrating the Roman Rite on 29 June. Rev Dylan Schrader announced this in a letter dated 29 May (below), published on wdtprs.com.

Following Traditionis Custodes (2021), the then Bishop of Jefferson City, Monsignor William McKnight, requested a two-year "dispensation" from the Vatican twice to continue with the Roman Rite in St Joseph. "That dispensation expires at the end of June and because it it has not been renewed that the bishop directed me to end the celebrations here", writes Rev Schrader.

Monsignor McKnight was advanced to Kansas City in April. The Jefferson City diocese is currently vacant.

Rev Schrader notes his personal connection to the Roman Rite, recalling that he celebrated his second Mass as a priest in this rite in 2010. He has offered the Mass weekly for the past seven years. St Joseph Parish has celebrated the Roman Rite since his appointment as pastor three years ago.

He also acknowledged the significant efforts made by the faithful to support the Mass, including altar servers, preparing materials, and learning chants.

Finally, he mentioned the challenges he has faced, such as managing multiple responsibilities outside the parish, for example at school, and encountering resistance from those opposed to the Roman Rite.

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Bonnie Louise

This is happening because "Leo" wants it, via Cupich who is really calling the shots. Just like the Biden pResidency.

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Bonnie Louise

McKnight is a bum, look him up on Lifesitenews, The Pillar, GloriaTV, etc. Many unCatholic moves made over his "career". A persecuter of good priests, a dictator who pretended to care about the molestations, a brown noser of the enemies within (Cupich, Tobin, et al). He could have just left, but instead decided to stab the Latin Mass community in the back on his way out.

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Sophie Gambardella

The Bishops hope to use 'obedience' as a bludgeon to force the closure of Latin Mass parishes, they do not realize that such habits haven't been taught by the Church since the late 1950's. At this point, the chanceries and the Bishops should be ignored on these issues, what's good for Gay-Affirming parishes is good for Trads. If they take away your church, band together, build a chapel, pay the priest and soldier on.

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