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Another Latin Mass Abolished: St. Joseph Parish in Missouri - Stone - 06-04-2025
Another Roman Mass Abolished: St. Joseph Parish in Missouri
gloria.tv | June 4, 2025
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.
[see here for letter from Fr. Shrader]