Latin Mass moves to Vancouver

By Laureen McMahon

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Archbishop Raymond Roussin, SM, has announced that Divine Mercy Quasi-Parish in New Westminster, home to the traditional Latin Mass in the Archdiocese of Vancouver, will move to Holy Family Parish in Vancouver effective July 1.

Holy Family will be administered by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter for a five-year term, and Father Erik Deprey, FSSP, has been appointed Holy Family pastor.

The society was founded in 1988 with the approval of Pope John Paul II to form priests in the Tridentine form of the Latin Rite Mass.

Holy Family will no longer be a German national parish, although pastor Father Benno Burghardt, who retires next month, will continue to offer Mass in German at the parish.

Archbishop Roussin said the changes were made under Canon Law 515 S.2 and after consultation with the archdiocese’s Presbyteral Council and the respective pastors and parish councils that will be affected by the changes.

The formal decrees of suppression and were announced at all Masses in the Quasi-parish of Divine Mercy and Holy Family Parish Sunday, June 15.