30 Local Priests Attend 'Latin Mass' Meeting

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SOLEMN HIGH MASS — Assisted by seminarians at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in Shrewsbury, Father Karl W. Lenhardt, rector of St. Francis de Sales Oratory in South St. Louis and Archbishop Raymond L. Burke’s delegate for implementing within the archdiocese the new regulations on the Latin Mass, lifts the chalice at the Consecration during a Tridentine Mass in the seminary’s St. Joseph Chapel Sept. 14. That was the day the new papal directive on the traditional Latin Mass went into effect.
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Priests of the archdiocese interested in celebrating the traditional Latin Mass attended a meeting last week to learn more about what is needed to offer it in their parishes.

Archbishop Raymond L. Burke and Father Karl W. Lenhardt, rector of St. Francis de Sales Oratory in South St. Louis, met with some 30 priests to discuss the papal norms of Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic letter, "Summorum Pontificum," which went into effect Sept. 14. . .

This should be welcomed news for the faithful of the Archdiocese - as should this:

Because of a need to continue offering that form of the Mass to the faithful in that area [West St Louis county/St Charles], the archbishop said he has asked the Benedictine monks of St. Louis Abbey in Creve Coeur to offer one traditional Latin Mass each day of the week, including Sunday.

Abbot Thomas Frerking, abbot of St. Louis Abbey, told the Review that his community will celebrate the Masses in the chapel of St. Anselm’s parish center.

Masses are expected to begin by the first Sunday of Advent, Abbot Frerking said.

The Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem are, for the time being, not in the St Louis Archdiocese.