Congratulations to the new Cardinals especially Raymond Cardinal Burke who is a great friend of our community and collaborator in promoting the Fifth Marian Dogma.

November 20, 2010. Benedict XVI has presided over a solemn ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica for the creation of 24 new cardinals from around the world. Among them are 15 Europeans, four Africans, two from the U.S., two Latin Americans and one Asian. Four of the new cardinals are over the age of 80 and therefore not eligible to participate in an eventual conclave.

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On Sunday, December 26th, His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke offered a Pontifical Solemn High Mass at the Seminary of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate in Rome. The Mass was offered in honor of Fr. Stefano Maria Manelli, being his patronal feast day, and in thanksgiving for the elevation of His Eminence to the Cardinalate. The Mass was sung by the combined choirs of the Franciscan Friars and Sisters of the Immaculate from various convents of the F.I. in Italy, and was conducted by Sr. Maria Cecilia Manelli and Fr. Giovanni Maria Manelli – resulting in an outstanding example of the magnificence the Mass is meant to have. The Friars and Sisters also had the honor of hosting His Excellency Bishop Gino Reali of the local diocese of Porto-Santa Rufino, Rome.

In his homily, Cardinal Burke focused on the need for beauty and splendor in the sacred liturgy, echoing what His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI wrote in the letter accompanying his Moto Proprio “Summorum Pontificum:” “It is not appropriate to speak of these two versions of the Roman Missal as if they were ‘two Rites’.  Rather, it is a matter of a twofold use of one and the same rite.” And “What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful.  It behooves all of us to preserve the riches which have developed in the Church’s faith and prayer, and to give them their proper place…”

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Fi News #96 – A Sample of the Music ( 02min) >>> Play

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Here is a sample of the beautiful music that was sung during the Mass with Cardinal Burke.

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In his homily, Cardinal Burke focused on the need for beauty and splendor in the sacred liturgy, echoing what His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI wrote in the letter accompanying his Moto Proprio “Summorum Pontificum:” “It is not appropriate to speak of these two versions of the Roman Missal as if they were ‘two Rites’.  Rather, it is a matter of a twofold use of one and the same rite.” And “What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful.  It behooves all of us to preserve the riches which have developed in the Church’s faith and prayer, and to give them their proper place…”

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His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke preaches at the 3rd Anniversary of the dedication of the main church at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe of which he is the founder. He focuses how the Lord dwells with us and the importance of places of worship which reflects the fact that Christ is God made man and dwells in a special way in our churches in the Holy Eucharist.  He relates this in particular to the request that Our Lady made to Bishop Zumarraga through St. Juan Diego to build a chapel. He exhorts us to make our hearts, homes and churches a dwelling place for Our Lord.
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Mass: Dedication of a Church – Form: OF
Readings:
Ezekiel 43:1-2, 4-7
Ephesians 2:19-22
Luke 19:1-10

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Conferences #145 – “The Memory of Fr. John Harvey, OSFS and the Future of Courage and Encourage” ( 65min) >>> Play

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His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke gives the opening keynote address titled “The Memory of Fr. John Harvey, OSFS and the Future of Courage and Encourage”, at the Annual National Courage Conference which ministers to people suffering from same sex attraction. After an introduction by Fr. Paul Check, Executive Director of Courage, Cardinal Burke gives a tribute to the late Father John Harvey the co-founder of Courage and EnCourage who was his personal friend.  He focuses on the many pastoral innovations that Fr. Harvey developed from his deep respect of the personhood of people with homosexual attraction leading them to accept and embrace the virtues advocated by the Church. He covers his deep devotion to his own parents and family and then his religious family the religious order of the Oblates of St Francis de Sales and the influence that these had on his great pastoral heart, what Courage has done and what it will accomplish in the future, especially the participation in the sacraments.

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Conferences #146 – Questions and Answers with Card. Burke after his talk on Fr. Harvey and Courage ( 19min) >>> Play

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His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke gives answers to questions fielded by the audience after the his opening keynote address titled “The Memory of Fr. John Harvey, OSFS and the Future of Courage and Encourage”, at the Annual National Courage Conference which ministers to people suffering from same sex attraction.

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Variety #152 – Card. Burke in La Crosse WI ( 10min) >>> Play

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Cardinal Burke gave the homily at the first Mass of the 2011 Canon Law Conference in La Crosse, WI on the feast of St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. She was a Jew and a renowned philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Carmelite nun until she was deported by the Germans to Auschwitz, where she was killed in the gas chambers. She entered Carmel in 1933 just after Hitler came to power Germany. Cardinal Burke compares the ordered mind of this great Catholic Saint and Martyr against the disordered destructive thinking and actions of the Nazis and points out how a well ordered legal system exemplified by Canon Law can be a great deterrent from such disorder. This begins in a a very personal way in a well ordered love in  the form of  fidelity to one’s vocation whether to the married life or religious life, all patterned on the loving relationship between God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

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