Video – Card. Burke – Need for Priestly Retreats – 1/8 – CONF 291

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Ave Maria!

Cardinal Raymond Burke gives the opening reflection for the 2015 Priests' Retreat themed "Holy Priesthood: Sacrament of Christ's Pastoral Charity". This talk is on the need for priests to make retreats, following the example of Jesus Christ. Topics covered include:

• Retreat is not self-indulgent but to proclaim that the priesthood is not my own


• Ultimate retreat was in the garden of Gethsemane


• Must take time away


• Things to do to be holy priests.


• Praying the liturgy of hours


• Yearly retreat


• Be thankful for vocation understanding


• Importance of the mission of salvation


• Recall the time you were ordained.


• Not my own will but him who sent me. Obedience


• Accompany Our Lord up to the time we go to live with him in heaven, the victory of eternal life


• Follow the example of Mary, the first disciple, and the holy priests that have gone before us.


• Pastores Dabo Vobis JPII - http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_25031992_pastores-dabo-vobis.html

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