Video – Card. Burke – 2015 Priests Retreat – Call to Eucharistic Sacrifice – 2/8 – CONF 292

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Ave Maria!

Cardinal Raymond Burke gives the second reflection for the 2015 Priests' Retreat themed "Holy Priesthood: Sacrament of Christ's Pastoral Charity". This talk is on how priests should have Eucharist as the life and heart of the Priesthood and how it is a call to Eucharistic sacrifice. Topics covered include:

• John Paul II Gift and Mystery Eucharist needs to be central part of his priestly vocation that is more and more internalized.
  
  
  
  • http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/gift-and-mystery-pope-john-paul-ii/1111943737
  
  
  
  


• Card. Burke's own call to the priesthood via the Eucharist and witness of the decline of Eucharistic devotion in the Church.


• Pastoral charity of Priest is summed up in the Eucharist


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


• Link between Eucharist and Confession. Cure de Ars, first adoration then Confession


• Confession linked to daily Examination of Conscience


• Priest and Victim, following Christ in a self-immolation, offering himself to Christ
  
  
  
  • Fulton Sheen "the Priest is not his own" first chapter especially
    
    
    
    • http://www.ignatius.com/Products/PNHO-P/the-priest-is-not-his-own.aspx
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Should not separate priesthood from victim-hood
  
  
  • Christ High priest, but also victim for the salvation of the world
  
  
  • Related to divine mercy
  
  
  
  


• Cure De Ars laxity in the priesthood related to laxity in celebrating Mass


• Inattention related to preoccupation with efficiency erroneously applied to celebrating Mass


• Priesthood needed for the Eucharistic


• Thus Eucharist is throughout the retreat

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