Loving hands revive Old St. Patrick’sThis is wonderful news!!! Bishop Finn has brought the Institute of Christ the King to the diocese as Archbishop Burke has done here.
A broken organ, missing altar and an antiquated heating system are challenges of restoration.
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The Roman Catholic diocese had shuttered the church by 1959, after which it was used only occasionally. Now the building, thought to be the oldest church in the city limits of Kansas City, is on track to reopen next year.
The sanctuary will again hear the solemn and majestic tones of the Latin Mass, which is the focus of a group of worshippers that currently meets at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church, 2552 Gillham Road. Earlier this year, about 90 families took on the renovation of Old St. Patrick’s Church for a permanent home. It’s now Old St. Patrick Roman Catholic Oratory.
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The group at Our Lady of Sorrows has been meeting there since 1989. Another group meets in Kansas City, Kan., at Blessed Sacrament Church — the St. Philippine Duchesne Latin Mass Community. Old St. Patrick’s was designated for the Latin Mass community at Sorrows by Bishop Robert W. Finn in 2005. An oratory has no geographical boundaries as a parish does.
The web site for Old St Patrick Oratory is here.
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