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As a grand finale to the symposium on the Motu Proprio a Traditional Mass was celebrated last Sunday by Archbishop Raymond Burke at St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel. The Mass was the first celebrated at St. Peters according to the pre-Vatican II rubrics in over forty years and had an overflow crowd for the congregation. The three day symposium was held October 16-18  entitled The Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum by Benedict XVI: A Great Gift for the Whole Church, organized by Fr. Vincenzo Nuara, O.P. founder of  Giovani e Tradizione (Youth and Tradition) hundreds of clergy and religious attended and the speakers were leaders in the various groups associated with Traditional Mass, including our founder Fr. Stefano Manelli.   Below are several pictures: From New Liturgical Movement and Rinascimento Sacro from their list of official images.

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Abp Raymond Burke makes his entrance:

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Our Sisters and Friars Provided the Gregorian Chant. In the front row in the choir are two Americans: Fra Ephraim and Fra Pio Maximilian as well as Fra Bernard from South Africa who spent his Postulancy and Novitiate in the US:

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Roving Reporter #70 – Fr. Peter interviews the founder of Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine. ( 26min) >>> Play

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Archbishop Raymond Burke is at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, WI celebrating the first anniversary of the shrine’s opening. The Rector of the shrine, our very own Fr. Peter Fehlner, took the opportunity to ask him for an interview on his role as the “Chief Justice” of the Catholic Church and the significance of the shrine in a modern, relativistic world and the Archbishop graciously agreed.

Taking his queue from an editorial from Dr. Robert Moynihan in the June issue of Inside the Vatican, Fr. Peter asks Abp. Burke his opinion on two different types of justice prevailing in the world, one relativistic and the other based on absolutes like natural law and divine revelation.

This leads to many other questions on our current cultural, political, social and spiritual condition: Does relativism lead to tyranny and totalitarianism? Is it possible to have an appeal to a higher authority than the US Supreme Court? Is relativism the cause of our current economic mess? Is strict separation of Church and state viable? How is religion and the Catholic Church important in secular affairs today? Is there a connection between your role as Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura and your Marian devotion? Does Our Lady add an element of mercy to the judicial process? Does Our Lady have a role in resolving the current crisis in the secular world? What role does this Shrine have today in the Church? Can Our Lady be a means to solve the ecumenical crisis.

And there are more provocative questions like: Can Our Lady be the basis for true and lasting peace, sort of a “Pax Mariana”, that would replace peace based on worldly power which comes and goes like “Pax Romana”, “Pax Britannica” and perhaps even “Pax Americana”?

Listen to a whole world of insight from this very Marian Prelate.

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Here are some photos from the opening of the National Shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe at La Crosse, WI last week. This makes our fifth friary in the US and, Wow, what a house and what a church! We have much to be grateful for. Many thanks to Abp. Raymond Burke for this great honor and … thanks be to God.

You can click on any photo below to see a larger view and then just keep clicking next. In this mode you can see the captions. You can also view this as a slide show but this is rather small and slow. There are some more links to other material on the web about the shrine at the bottom.

Video – Roving Reporter #34: Our Lady of Guadalupe at Lacrosse, Wisconsin

La Crosse Tribune Photo Gallery

New Liturgical Movement:

Progress at La Crosse

More New Paintings at La Crosse

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