Variety #94 – Bsp. Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska ( 14min) >>> Play

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Fr. Elias Mills of our Bloomington, Indiana friary recently interviewed the renowned Bishop Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska on current issues of faith and Church in America.  We are posting them here in a five part series. In the first part, in answering Fr. Elias questions, the bishop relates his thoughts about:

• His 50 years as a priest and bishop in the Church and all the changes and events in the time.
• His visits to shrines in Europe and Rome.
• His 19 years as Bishop of Lincoln.
• The graces that are ever needed for his office
• His work with John Paul II and Benedict XVI
• What these two papacies have done for the Church especially the continuity that they reaffirmed between the post and pre-Vatican II Church
• The Moto Proprio of Pope Benedict and how it is not at all against Vatican II
• The unlikelihood of a mixture of the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the liturgy
• New English translation of the Ordinary Form of the Liturgy
• How well Catechisis has been carried out in the Post Vatican II era
• balance needed between doctrine and pastoral and social concerns

Listening to Bsp. Bruskewitz’s clear  insights and answers is refreshing indeed.

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Fi News #82 – Marian Friary in Progress ( 06min) >>> Play

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Here is a video of the construction on the new Marian Friary of Our Lady Coredemptrix which started on March 25th, 2010 on the Feast of the Annunciation and shows the process up through August.The friary will be 22,000 square feet and have room for 28 friars with two floors, a partial basement and a bell tower that will be 86 feet high. The bell tower will have 3 bells from a local church that recently closed and the top 16 ft will be an illuminated cross. The friary is being built adjacent to the existing chapel on the property and will have direct access to the chapel’s main floor from the friary’s 2nd floor and to the chapel’s basement from the friary’s first floor.

The planned opening is spring 2011. Keep this project in your prayers.

Below are some pictures of some more progress since the video was taken. We will keep you posted

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Fi News #64 – Fr. Elias with sled on the precipice. ( 03min) >>> Play

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Fr. Elias and the other friars and local youth sled down the l-o-o-o-o-ng steep hill at our Bloomington, IN Friary. He even carried a friar cam with him so you can get an on-sled view of the action.  So click play and hang on tight!!

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Fr. Elias is the guest on Michael Voris’ show The One True Faith where he addresses certain concerns about the proclamation of the Marian Dogmas, Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate. But he especially addresses the Ecumenical Question which seems to be the biggest reason for Catholics to not accept it. Listen to this quick and interesting audio on the Coredemption and find out more about our upcoming Marian Conference (Oct 13)?on this subject.

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Fr. Elias is a guest at WHOJ hosted by Msgr. Larry Moran in Terre Haute, Indiana to promote the Behold Your Mother Marian Conference at Our Lady of Greenwood Parish in Greenwood, Indiana on Saturday Oct 13th, the 90th Anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima, Portugal. Come listen and learn about this very unique Marian Conference.

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This week Fr. Elias takes-on Christopher Hitchins, the one who tried unsuccessfully to ruin the reputation of Mother Theresa of Calcutta and who is now trying to ruin God’s. Good luck! He and his cohorts on the “Rational Response Team?? have become quite fashionable on YouTube with their “blasphemy challenge.?? But Fr. Elias points out that “The fool has said in his heart there is no God?? Psalm 14; for to say there is no God goes against reason because the existence of God is not a theological but a rational and philosophical truth as Vatican I Council states. Watch this video as Fr. Elias explains the try nature of blasphemy and how it does not lead to “freedom from the tyranny of theism?? but rather to enslavement to a darkened intellect and heart.

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The Holy Spirit is the spirit of love, of truth, and of martyrdom. All the martyrs gave witness to Christ, and it was the Holy Spirit that gave them the inspiration and the strength to make their confessions. In today’s homily, Fr. Elias discusses this and he also discusses the special relationship that the Holy Spirit has with the Vicar of Christ, the Pope, who is the principal governor and teacher of the Faith. Father Elias tells us that the Holy Father is not just the shepherd and teacher of the Catholic Church, he is the shepherd and the teacher of the whole world because he is Christ’s representative on earth.

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Today the Franciscans of the Immaculate celebrate the dedication of the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi:

Pope Gregory IX laid the first stone of the Lower Basilica the day after the canonisation of St Francis, on July 17th 1228. Two years later the saint’s body, that had been resting in the church of San Giorgio (the future church of St Claire’s) was brought here in secret for fear of looting by tomb raiders and buried in the unfinished church.

[Click here for link to the Basilica in Assisi.]

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Recently, Pope Benedict XVI stated that the scene of the apostles in the upper room in prayer with Our Lady is the model for the Church in every age. It was in that room that the apostles received the seal and power of the Holy Spirit. In today’s homily, Fr. Elias discusses how we can be predisposed to the receiving and using the gifts of the Spirit of God, and he takes much of his material from a book on the Holy Spirit written by Italian priest Don Dolindo, a work soon to be translated and published by the Academy of the Immaculate. Don Dolindo insisted that practicing the moral virtues was the foundation for cultivating the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and he wrote that Our Lady was moved solely by the Holy Spirit, solely by the love of God. We cannot claim such a grace because we were not immaculately conceived, but we can plead with Our Lady to open our hearts so that we can receive the fullness of the Spirit that God desires us to possess. [Click here for today's readings.]

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Fr. Elias Mary announces the Behold Your Mother Conference in Greenwood, IN on Oct. 13, 2007, which will be on the doctrine of Mary as Coredeemer, Mediatrix and Advocate and why it should be solemnly declared as a dogma. The conference will feature prominent, popular apologists such as Dr. Scott Hahn, Dr. Mark Miravalle, Fr. Pablo Straub and many more. Archbishop Raymond Burke will be the main celebrant. Come watch this video about this historic event.

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