Conferences #199 – ( 30min) >>> Play

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Fr. Ben Luedtke gives the third talk for the Priest’s Retreat at the Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center in Bloomington, IN. He preaches on the need for personal conversion and how this is what is asked for in the Second Vatican Council and the New Evangelization, that before we go and try to change the world we need to change ourselves. Personal conversion should be the habitual starting point for all our apostolic activity.

List of talks for the Priests Conference 2012:

• Hom #1 Mon, Dec 3, Fr. Ben Luedtke, On the Mass
• Talk #1 – Mon, Dec, Conf #197 , Fr. Ben Luetdke, Unique Shepherds
• Hom #2 – Tue, Dec 4, Fr. Ben Luedtke, Becoming Christ
• Talk #2 – Tues, Dec 4, Conf #198, Fr. Ben Luetdke, The Whys of Priests
• Talk #3 – Tue, Dec 4, Conf #199, Fr. Ben Luetdke, Conversion
• Hom #3 – Wed, Dec 5, Card. Raymond Burke, Unite to Him who Sends Us
• Talk #4 – Wed, Dec 5, Conf #200,  Card. Raymond Burke, Saintly Priests
• Talk #5 – Wed, Dec 5, Conf #201,  Card. Raymond Burke, Celibacy
• Hom #4 – Thu, Dec 6, Card. Raymond Burke, St Nicholas, Exemplar of Shepherds
• Talk #6 – Thu, Dec 6, Conf #202,  Card. Raymond Burke, Centrality of Eucharist
• Talk #7 – Thu, Dec 6, Conf #203,  Card. Raymond Burke, Sacred Heart
• Talk #8 – Fri, Dec 7, Conf #204, Card. Raymond Burke, New Evangelization
• Hom #5 – Fri, Dec 7, Card. Raymond Burke, St Ambrose, Good Shepherd

Ave Maria!

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Conferences #204 – ( 62min) >>> Play

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Cardinal Burke gives the the 8th and final talk at the Priest’s Retreat at the Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center in Bloomington, IN.

The topic is the “New Evangelization and the Priesthood” which is related to the Year of Faith for the 50 anniversary of the first session of the Second Vatican Council and covers:

• Misconception that the discipline in Canon Law is somehow antithetical to pastoral considerations
• Three fold aspect

1. Reach new people,
2. Help existing Christians grow,
3. hHelp those Christians who have wandered far off.

• Christifideles Laici post synodal letter
  • Faithful are being put under test by onslought of atheism and indifferentism especially in First World  where consumerism is prevalent
  • Secularism portrays Religion as just a side show
  • Urgent repair is need to stem secularism
  • Do what we can to uphold Christian aspect of US culture
  • Mend Christian fabric of society but first must fix Church interiorly
  • Separation of faith from daily life, “Personally opposed but…”
  • Need to hear gospel with freshness of first apostles
  • Society says all authority should be restricted and questioned except the authority of myself
  • But need to take up the cross and do the Father’s will
  • Specifically priests, must involve entire people of God.
  • Need to be immersed in mystery of Christ
  • Good way for his is Devotion to Sacred Heart of Jesus
  • Catholics will respond to their priests and seek for their leadership
  • Devil does not rest. Be vigilant, especially priests
  • Zach 13:7 strike the shepherd and flock will scatter
• Good synthesis Close of Jubilee Year Novo Millennio Ineunte paragraph 29
  • There is no Magic formula but rather a person, Jesus, alive for us in the Church
  • Gospel and Living tradition
  • This program does not change but does take into account changes in society
  • Holiness is key, starting with Baptism, but then must deepen our spirituality
• Extraordinary nature of our ordinary life, very important
  • Holiness makes ordinary lives extraordinary
  • JPII’s large number of canonizations was meant to underline this
  • “The high standard of ordinary Christian living”
  • This holiness in ordinary, living people is noticed by others
• New Evangelization included in Paul VI Evangelii Nuntiandi Dec 8 1975
  • Paul VI sad over problems in the Church
  • Homily Sts. Peter and Paul 1972 through a fissure smoke of Satan entered the church
  • Restlessness that disregarded the Church and her wisdom and turned to the World and the media
  • Instead of fresh air…
• Mother Mary Francis Poor Clare Collotine Ignatius Press
  • Energy should not be put into workshops should be on community formation and mental hygiene
  • The holy spirit is true councilor
  • To talk from a stump of censure is not the answer
• Hermenuetic of rupture
  • Must renew Church as if all that happened in the Church since apostles was mistake
  • Dec 2005 two interpretation of the Council: Rupture or Reform with the past councils, magisterium v.
  • Fruit of rupture, misunderstand that the council was given some sort of mandate to form a new constitution. But no such mandate by the people, Our Lord has already established new constitution
• Canon Law
  • 1998 Casa Santa maria residence in Rome ran into many priests across the country
  • Did not really want cannon law but out of obedience
  • Most all priests considered canon law as useless and something they thought was done away with
  • This is part of the hermeneutic rupture
  • Discipline is in continuity with pastorship
  • Council did not do away with canon law
  • No dichotomy between canon law and
  • Great harm was done by this spirit against the Church discipline
    • Catechisis
    • Religious life
    • loss of Catholic nature of Catholic charitable institutes
    • Loss of the meaning of marriage in the face of disregard of canon law
    • Against idea that the Church is the mirror of justice
• Canon law is not against pastoral as popes have repeatedly said to the Roman Rota
  • JPII in 1990, 2005 to Roman Rota
  • BXVI 2006, 2007, 2010
  • Pastoral without discipline (cannon Law) is pseudo pastoral and does harm
  • Natural link between what is good for the individual and the truth of the status of the individual in regard to salvation
  • E.g. Catholic Hospitals and their Catholic Identity
    • doing immoral operation, sterilization etc.
    • Are they Catholic or not? Principle of non-contradiction comes in which is a principle of objective truth irregardless of religion.
• Conclusion
  • Canon Law is helpful to the New Evangelization
  • big part of remaining of the Catholic fabric
  • Task of doing this is formidable.
  • Mary Immaculate and saints unceasingly intercedes for us.
  • Let us invoke her as Speculum Justicia, Mirror of Justice
  • Justice is actually a minimum standard for the life of charity
  • Can not have charity if we can not even uphold justice
  • Our Lady of Guadalupe end of the unjust Human sacrifice of the Aztecs
  • Resulted in the lasting union of the new people of Mexico in America
  • Sent Juan Diego to Bishop, respecting Church hierarchy
  • JPII apostolic constitution Sacrae Disciplinae Leges
  • Canon Law needs to be once again given the role it had

List of talks for the Priests Conference 2012:

• Hom #1 Mon, Dec 3, Fr. Ben Luedtke, On the Mass
• Talk #1 – Mon, Dec, Conf #197 , Fr. Ben Luetdke, Unique Shepherds
• Hom #2 – Tue, Dec 4, Fr. Ben Luedtke, Becoming Christ
• Talk #2 – Tues, Dec 4, Conf #198, Fr. Ben Luetdke, The Whys of Priests
• Talk #3 – Tue, Dec 4, Conf #199, Fr. Ben Luetdke, Conversion
• Hom #3 – Wed, Dec 5, Card. Raymond Burke, Unite to Him who Sends Us
• Talk #4 – Wed, Dec 5, Conf #200,  Card. Raymond Burke, Saintly Priests
• Talk #5 – Wed, Dec 5, Conf #201,  Card. Raymond Burke, Celibacy
• Hom #4 – Thu, Dec 6, Card. Raymond Burke, St Nicholas, Exemplar of Shepherds
• Talk #6 – Thu, Dec 6, Conf #202,  Card. Raymond Burke, Centrality of Eucharist
• Talk #7 – Thu, Dec 6, Conf #203,  Card. Raymond Burke, Sacred Heart
• Talk #8 – Fri, Dec 7, Conf #204, Card. Raymond Burke, New Evangelization
• Hom #5 – Fri, Dec 7, Card. Raymond Burke, St Ambrose, Good Shepherd

Ave Maria!

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Homily #130523 ( 03min) Play – To bring about a new evangelization, Father reminds us that at confirmation we received the power of the Holy Spirit to be soldiers of Christ, to carry out His mission of preaching to the whole world.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Thursday in Pentecost Week – Ferial – Form: EF, Spiritus Domini
Readings: 
1st: act 8:5-8
Gsp: luk 9:1-6

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Conferences #219 – ( 59min) >>> Play

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Warning: Adult Themes Discussed

The second speaker for the 2013 International Courage Conference in Mundelein, IL, was Bishop John M. LeVoir of the New Ulm Diocese in Minnesota who gave a talk titled, “What Does It Mean to be a Human Image of God?” In view of the current Year of Faith and the  New Evangelization he exhorts us to address our fallen nature with three steps:

1. Study to know our selves as a human image of God and yet that we are broken due to Adam’s fall and so in need of healing.
2. Interiorize this knowledge through a good prayer life
3. And finally to act accordingly.

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Homily #130930b ( 08min) Play – Fr. Louis Maximilian on the New Evangelization  and how this necessarily involves a re-evangelization of former Christian lands. Pope Francis is saying that this involves a good deal of mercy to draw former Christians back to the Church. We must turn to Mary Immaculate the Mother of Mercy to ask her to be her voice in order to be merciful evangelizers.
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Jerome – Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Monday 26th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: zec 8:1-8
Resp: psa 102:16-18, 19-21, 29, 22-23
Gsp: luk 9:46-50

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Homily #131212n ( 15min) Play – Fr. Angelo gives us the historical context Our Lady appeared in, and contrasts Her, who called herself Tender Mother, with the demonic mother deity of the Aztecs, Coatlicue. This miraculous intervention of Our Lady brought peace into Mexico and the bloody Aztecs to Christ in stupendous numbers. Finally, Father points out that the continuing miracle of the Tilma shows the continuing intervention Our Lady is making for the Americas’ and that She, the “Star of the New Evangelization” is the solution to the darkness that is again falling over the New World. May we look to Her as our model and beg Her to crush the head of the dragon again in our own age.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Our Lady of Guadalupe – Feast – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: zec 2:14-17
Resp: jth 13:22-23
2nd: rev 11:19, 12:1-6a,10
Gsp: luk 1:26-38

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Homily #140426n ( 05min) Play – In today’s Gospel, Father comments that all the Apostles were witnesses of the Resurrection of the Lord, and they witnessed to the Resurrection by their lives and preaching. We too, have the received the news of the Resurrection, and, we too, must witness to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ by our lives.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Saturday of Easter Week – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 4:13-21
Resp: psa 118:1, 14-15, 16-18, 19-21
Gsp: mar 16:9-15

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Homily #140529n ( 04min) Play – Father Joachim’s relates a catechetical tale reminding us that God doesn’t have a backup plan for evangelizing the world, we are the plan. Do we use the gifts we have been given for God’s glory or our own? We have no choice but to evangelize, life does have meaning, love is more powerful than hate, and we must be Christ in the world today. If we don’t do, it won’t be done!
Ave Maria!
Mass: Ascension of the Lord Thursday – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 1:1-11
Resp: psa 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9
2nd: eph 1:17-23
Gsp: mat 28:16-20

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Homily #141118n ( 04min) Play – The goal of the Church is to save those who would otherwise be lost, and we can see this in Our Lord’s eating with Zacchaeus in today’s Gospel. We can also see this in today’s celebration where we remember the Apostle to the Jews and Foundation of the Church, St. Peter, and the Apostle to the Gentiles, St. Paul. The Church’s call is universal, to reach all men with the Gospel. As members of this Church, that means we too are called to spread the Gospel, and especially to those who would otherwise be lost.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Dedication of St. Peters and Pauls Basilicas – Opt Mem – Form: OF
Readings: Tuesday in the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time
1st: rev 3:1-6, 14-22
Resp: psa 15:2-3, 3-4, 5
Gsp: luk 19:1-10

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Homily #150105b ( 10min) Play – After Epiphany Fr. Elias follows up on yesterday’s homily by preaching on the need to participate in the manifestation of Christ epitomized in the Epiphany by being active evangelizers and so manifest Christ to the world. This is what the Church is calling us to do in the New Evangelization.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Mon post Epiphany or Jan 7 – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: 1jo 3:22-4:6
Resp: psa 2:7bc-8, 10-12a
Gsp: mat 4:12-17, 23-25

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