Ave Maria!

So at long last, here’s the final piece of the puzzle which puts our whole Coredemption Conference together – Dr. Scott Hahn.

He was not the last speaker at the Conference, Fr Peter Damian Mary Fehlner was, but Fr Peter’s presentation was posted early on in this series, so Dr Scott Hahn gets the privilege of wrapping things up – and what a great speaker to do this!

I’m sure that none of our speakers would mind us telling you this: all of the speakers at the Conference appeared Pro Bono – and may God reward them abundantly for their generosity.

Ave Maria!

Ave Maria!

??He’s seen often on EWTN, he’s the Spiritual Theology Professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville, he’s also the president of an international Catholic effort called Vox Populi Mariae Mediatrici (the Voice of the People for Mary Mediatrix) besides being one of the most respected Mariologists in the world, he??s an accomplished author, he??s a prolific writer of numerous articles, he’s a sought after lecturer, and he’s an ordained permanent Deacon in his diocese, and most importantly of all, he??s a devoted husband and a father of 8 beautiful children – please welcome Dr. Mark Miravalle.”

Here Dr. Miravalle gives a long litany of all the saints, mystics, magisterial statements, and fathers and doctors of the Church, who refer to Mary as Coredemptrix. He puts this in a nutshell by asking, “Where’s the controversy? Where’s the confusion?” Come listen to Dr. Miravalle’s impassioned plea for the dogmatic proclamation of the Marian Titles, Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate. Thank you, Dr. Mark!

Ave Maria!

Ave Maria!

In this week’s installment of the video from our Marian Coredemption Conference, Behold Your Mother we have the homily of Archbishop Raymond Burke who was the main celebrant for Mass. He bases his homily on the apparitions at Fatima (the day of the conference, Oct 13th, was the 90th anniversary of the apparitions) giving him the opportunity to talk about the intercession of Mary in cooperation with Christ. Thank you Archbishop Burke.

We will be posting Mark Miravalle’s talk next week. Stay tuned!

Ave Maria!

Ave Maria!

Here is the second presentation given at our Coredemption Conference in Indiana on Saturday 13th October, 2007, by yet another EWTN celebrity, Fr. Pablo Straub. He admitted afterwards to running out of time and having to shorten his talk – what a tragedy! Maybe we will see the lost parts in the book when it goes to print.

Ave Maria!

Ave Maria!

So here’s the first talk given at the Coredemption Conference held on Saturday 13th October 2007, at Our Lady of the Greenwood Catholic Church, Greenwood, Indiana. Raymond de Souza had the honor of being the first speaker (or was it really an honor?) – we’ve taken the switched feed backup tape, fixed a few minor switching errors (no names mentioned!), re-captured the audio from the source tapes, and stitched this show together – please enjoy!

We will be trying to post one episode a week for the next several weeks until we have the whole Conference re-run. We will also make these talks available in podcasts, i.e. in MP3 format to download for use in MP3 players etc. – stay tuned.

Raymond has a brand new series now showing on EWTN – check it out Mondays at 11:00am, and Thursdays at 2:30am.

Ave Maria!

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Fr. Peter gives the last presentation at the?Behold Your Mother Marian Conference receiving a standing ovation.? The title of his talk is Mariae Advocatae Causa: The Marian Issue in the Church Today.?He discusses with his usual exuberance why the Marian titles of Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate are central to the Church today. Come listen as Fr. Peter connects these doctrines to a wide number of concerns for the Church.

Ave Maria!

Ave Maria!

Here is the first of the segments from the Panel Discussion of the Behold Your Mother Marian Conference with Fr. Peter Fehlner, Scott Hahn, Mark Miravalle, Raymond de Souza and with Dana Scallon as the MC. This is a direct recording of the live feed. We intended to put all the conference up in this fashion but due to the computer crash half way through Scott Hahn’s presentation we lost most of the presentations. The first Question and Answer is hard to follow because of audio problems but these get resolved?quickly and the speakers handle all this so gracefully.

Ave Maria!

So, several days have passed since we held our Coredemption Conference at Our Lady of the Greenwood Church in Greenwood, Indiana, and our Vlogmaster and Roving Reporter, friar Roderic Mary, travelled to La Crosse, WI today, visiting the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which the friars will be taking custody of in June next year.

This Pictorial Essay of the Coredemption Conference is an attempt to thank all those involved in the organization of this incredible event .

One of our guests commented afterwards, “This is the most professionally organized conference I have ever attended.” This was a glowing comment from a man who has probably attended hundreds of events similar to ours. I’m not blowing our own trumpet, but merely pointing out that the friars had only a minor role in this and therefore the thanks and praise should all go to the hundreds of people we would like to thank for helping us to organize this event. Most of the people we would like to thank didn’t have their photos taken during the day so I am unable to post their pictures below, and I don’t have a list of names, so I won’t even try that, but I hope they and you all enjoy this pictorial essay as our way of saying thank you.

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A picture the new church of Our Lady of the Greenwood, Greenwood, Indiana

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The Old church is very beautiful but the Parish outgrew it and it is still used for the two daily masses and is packed each time – a vibrant parish community!.

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The huge crowd of people (well over 1000) waiting excitedly for the Conference to begin.

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Nick Welch assisting Dana with her microphone and ironing out some last minute technical hitches.

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Fr. Maximilian Mary Dean prepares the crowd for the Conference with some beautiful, prayerful, music.

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Michael Grogan assisting Fr. Maximilian with background vocals – amazing musical ability for a legally blind person!

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The Control Room for the four Cameras – you may have seen this photo before – we had no photos of the control room taken during the conference so I stole this one from a previous post.

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Susan Mackewich in the control room out of control – well, maybe the technical director was out of control – Susan was just being her “producer” self (she will hate me for putting this unflattering photo of her up but it is the only photo that was taken of her the whole day so I have no choice!). Her friend Ginny,?also had only one even more unflattering photo taken, and I definitely wasn’t going to put that one up! Thank you Susan and Ginny for all your sacrifices and help.

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Lights… Gabriel (aka Brother Mule) did a fantastic job on the follow spot. So much so, that the only time we had to tell him what to do was when he had to shine the light on Our Blessed Lord during Benediction. He didn’t feel right about standing up and focusing the spotlight on Our Lord cause he wanted to get down on his knees and adore. Susan explained that “Our Lord is the star of the show and he has to have the spotlight on him.” He reluctantly obeyed but talked about how bad he felt for hours.

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Camera… Fra Roderic, normally our Roving Reporter, takes a test drive on the other side of the lens. He did a pretty good job considering his lack of experience behind a camera – as did our whole crew. One of our cameramen, fra Anthony, had never done this before, fra Josemaria had only a few practice sessions and a video school’s experience, and fortunately we had fra Joseph as our number 1 cameraman, who has been doing camera work for a while. Considering the lack of experience with nearly the whole crew, I think we did a pretty good job – we’ll have to wait until we get the footage into editing but I’m hoping for great things.

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Action… Dana, our wonderful MC, kicks off the Conference – and what an MC she was!, and pro bono to boot. Well, we were so blessed as all our speakers appeared pro bono in order to promote the honor due to Our Blessed Mother. May God reward them all for their generosity. I should also mention that no-one was paid a penny for anything they did at this conference – from our NYC Producer right down to the person who was vacuuming the church entrance at midnight on Saturday night. May God bless and reward them all abundantly for their kindness and generosity.

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Michael Rose listens intently to the quality of the audio being pumped into the church, as well as being piped into the control room (the sacristy) for the live stream and the backup audio recording. He is sitting in front of the very impressive audio mixer located at the rear of the church. What a great job our audio guys did and this will be verified when the CD and DVD sets become available – stay tuned for that.

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Raymond de Souza, of recent EWTN fame, had the honor of being the first speaker.

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Here’s Fr. Pablo Straub during his demonstrative and lively talk.

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Of all the thanks that we have to give, the most goes goes to Msgr. Svarzkopf. Without the use of his church, we had no Conference at all. Imagine handing over your church to a dozen Franciscan friars who lug in 3 carloads of equipment and then proceed to spend the next two days running hundreds of feet of cables all over the church, taping them down with ugly black gaffer tape, filling the sacristy with so much electronic equipment that the ambient temperature was raised to about 90 degrees (not to mention the fact that it was no longer recognizable or usable as a sacristy!), and then erecting camera platforms, tripods, spotlights, and a huge backdrop that covered the tabernacle. Thank you Msgr. for putting up with us!

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The Principle Celebrant for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was Archbishop Raymond Burke. Here he is during the Mass with Deacon Mark Marivalle, and the founder of the Franciscans of the Immaculate, Fr Stefano Maria Manelli.

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Archbishop Raymond Burke during his homily – what a shepherd!

Please God, send us more shepherds like him to guide and teach Your flock.

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Dr Mark Marivalle (or should it be Deacon Dr?), after his presentation, poses in front of one of the beautiful backdrop and podium posters designed by one of our new novices, fra Thomas. Getting this magnificent backdrop completed came right down to the wire, but thanks to God it was completed in a timely manner.

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Dr Scott Hahn was at his best – what more can I say? Stay tuned for the book, DVD, and CD sets, to try to absorb the stupendous teachings given throughout this day.

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Here’s Raymond de Souza and Mark Marivalle slightly relaxed during the highlight of the day – the panel discussion. Fra Roderic is trying to get this posted on video because it was so good. Someone commented afterwards, “You will never again see these four people on a discussion panel like this again.” I hope they’re not right. It was so good we could have scheduled two hours for this segment and still not bored the audience. Again – stay tuned.

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A classic moment – order a DVD or CD set to see what all this was about!!!

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Fr Peter Damian Mary Fehlner makes a point during the last of the speakers presentations. This was classic Fr Peter Damian stuff. One of our sound guys commented over the intercom, after Fr Peter was about 5 mins into his talk, “Hey, this guy’s really heavy!” Even Fr Stefano admitted that he has to read Fr Peter’s works several times to absorb them. I’m waiting for the book to even try!

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Dana finished off the presentations side of the Conference with a few songs to lighten things up a bit and really round out the whole conference with a very balanced series of talks and presentations – it seemed pretty obvious to us, when it was all over, that the Holy Spirit and not us had put all this together.

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What Conference centered on Our Blessed Mother would be complete if it didn’t end with the adoration of Her Son in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Fr Elias was in charge of the organization of the whole Conference and we can’t thank him and his team of volunteers enough. I hope he can start thinking about preparing for the Second Annual Coredemption Conference – TBA???

	Hahn	Miravalle	Fehlner	Burke
	de Souza	Straub	Dana

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Today’s the big day! We will be live streaming the Marian Conference Behold Your Mother, Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, Advocate. We are currently streaming now from a DVD of Fr. Maximilian’s Concert. Rosary will be at 8:30am and the conference will start at 9am. We hope you enjoy. And, of course, please leave comments!

Ave Maria!

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