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Fr. Stephen Jones working to spread message of stewardship throughout the diocese
Father Stephen Jones sums up Catholic stewardship in two words. “Follow Me.” That invitation from Jesus echoes throughout salvation history, calling all who encounter Him not just … more
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Parish representatives and members of the Diocesan Pastoral Council discuss aspects of a working document for a new pastoral plan for the Jefferson City diocese. The process of discerning a new plan — incorporating aspects of stewardship, co-responsibility and parishes as centers of mercy and charity — have been under way since December 2019. Bishop W. Shawn McKnight plans to release the final version in time for the First Sunday of Advent.
Parish representatives help focus pastoral plan
The pandemic has altered some of the methods but none of the urgency in discerning a new pastoral plan for the Jefferson City diocese and all of its parishes. “There are things that may have … more
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The new Jefferson City headquarters for El Puente–Hispanic Ministry at 2709 Industrial Drive, Suite B, is well suited to the panoply of services the agency offers to Hispanic people in the area. — Photos by Cristhia Castro
New El Puente headquarters in Jefferson City will be a doorway to the future of Hispanic ministry
“El Puente” means “The Bridge,” but the new headquarters for El Puente–Hispanic Ministry in Jefferson City could just as easily be known as “El Centro” or … more
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Bishop W. Shawn McKnight addresses the in-person and online participants in a Aug. 22 meeting of the Diocesan Pastoral Council to help develop parish pastoral plans throughout the diocese into a diocesan pastoral plan to be set into action in Advent of this year.
Themes, patterns emerge for diocesan pastoral plan
In seven sentences in “Evangelii Gaudium” (“Joy of the Gospel”), Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation on the New Evangelization, the reigning pontiff presents a clear … more
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Father Paul Clark
Fr. Paul Clark begins work as vocation director, seeks more help from pastors, parishioners
Father Paul Clark knows that promoting vocations in the diocese is full-time work. For everyone. Not just the director of the Diocesan Vocation Office. “We are all full-time vocation … more
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Bishop W. Shawn McKnight is urging adults, ages 18 and over, in 10 counties in the diocese to answer a survey pertaining to models for collaboration and combination among parishes and missions in those areas. Changing demographics, a decreasing number of priests and other factors are making changes necessary.
Surveys sent on parish collaboration in 10 counties
If it’s worth doing, it will be worth doing differently. New realities call for changes in how the Church in this area carries out its mandate to baptize, teach and form disciples of Jesus … more
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Venerable Father Augustus Tolton (1854-97)
Fr. Tolton lived what he preached, led many people to Christ
People who knew him eulogized Venerable Father Augustus Tolton, a former slave from northeastern Missouri, as “an apostle to the people.” Namely, he knew what it took to lead them to … more
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MAKING CONNECTIONS — Initiating a process — for discerning a path forward in 10 counties
“For as in one body we have many parts, and all the parts do not have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ and individually parts of one another.” — … more
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People who are unable to receive Holy Communion are encouraged to offer this prayer for a Communion of Desire.
Bishop extends precautions, dispensations due to COVID-19 pandemic through Nov. 27
CLICK HERE to read the full text of Bishop McKnight's Aug. 21 official decree.    By Jay Nies Out of abundant concern for the common good and especially for people who are most at … more
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Father Nicholas Reid, a priest of the Jefferson City diocese and member of the U.S. Air Force Chaplain Corps, donates convalescent plasma at a hospital in San Antonio, Texas, where he is enrolled in a Clinical Pastoral Education program for hospital chaplaincy.
Fr. Reid recovers from COVID-19, donates plasma for research
Father Nicholas Reid was scheduled for his first shift of chaplain residency in the trauma ward at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. Instead, he wound up in the center’s … more
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Father Donardo “Dandi” Bermejo and the staff of the St. Joseph the Worker Clinic for the sugarcane plantation workers in the Negros Occidental region of the Philippines wear their armor to help people battle illnesses of all sorts.
Fr. Bermejo’s mission in the Philippines persisting through pandemic, sickening pollution
An ironclad lockdown due to COVID-19 meant Father Donardo “Dandi” Bermejo had to close his health clinic in the Philippines. But it couldn’t stay that way. “After a … more
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OFFICIAL DECREE on pastoral activities in the Diocese of Jefferson City during the COVID-19 pandemic and after Sept. 11, 2020
Whereas, the Department of Health and Senior Services of the State of Missouri and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States Federal Government continue to recommend the … more
Sunlight cascades through one of the colorful stained-glass windows in the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Jefferson City.
Official Decree of Appointments
The Most Reverend W. Shawn McKnight, Bishop of Jefferson City, makes the following appointments:   RETIREMENTS Deacon James Kliethermes, from diaconal ministry at Cathedral of St. … more
Msgr. Kurwicki offers prayer at opening of Special Session
Monsignor Robert A. Kurwicki, chaplain of the Missouri House of Representatives, offered the following prayer at the opening of the 2020 Special Legislative Session in the House on Aug. 12: … more
Deacon John Schwartze, left is the new diocesan director of deacon formation. Deacon Raymond Purvis, right, will continue as director of deacon life and ministry
Deacon directors bring a wealth of experience to their work
The two deacons who coordinate the functions of the permanent diaconate office in this diocese bring a wealth of ministerial and life experience to their roles. Deacon John Schwartze, recently … more
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Thirteen newly ordained permanent deacons of the Jefferson City diocese process out of the Cathedral of St. Joseph at the end of their Ordination Mass on May 4, 2019. Bishop W. Shawn McKnight ordained five more deacons on Oct. 13. A new class of potential deacons are to begin formal discernment in January 2021.
Permanent deacons to be important part of pastoral plan
“If you get the diaconate right,” Bishop W. Shawn McKnight once stated, “everything else about the Church seems to just fall into place.” With a rightly ordered diaconate, … more
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The marquee sign outside Helias Catholic High School in Jefferson City posts a timely message during the first week of August. It refers to the verse, "Rejoice in hope, endure in affliction, persevere in prayer." (Romans 12:12)
Catholic schools in the diocese stand ready for whatever the new school year brings
All 37 of the Jefferson City diocese’s Catholic elementary schools and three Catholic high schools remain on target for ringing in the 2020-21 school year with in-school instruction. But … more
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Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Mo. expanding Food & Nutrition Services
Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri (CCCNMO) is expanding its Food & Nutrition Services Program through the distribution of senior food boxes to Cole County seniors in … more
Diocesan Catholic schools preparing for in-school instruction this fall
All 37 Catholic elementary schools and three Catholic high schools in the Jefferson City diocese are on track to offer in-school instruction at the start of the new school year. All will abide by … more
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Priests and seminarians of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois lead a procession to the burial place of Venerable Father Augustus Tolton, a former slave in northeastern Missouri who became the Roman Catholic Church’s first recognizably black priest in the United States, on the 123rd anniversary of his death.
Venerable Fr. Tolton remains a steady voice for discipleship
CLICK HERE to see a gallery of photos from this event. http://catholicmissourianonline.com/stories/photos-fr-tolton-pilgrim-procession-in-quincy-illinois,2718 Were he living today, Venerable … more
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