Video – Card. Burke – Sacred Heart – 4/8 – CONF 294

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Ave Maria!

Cardinal Raymond Burke gives the fourth reflection for the 2015 Priests' Retreat themed "Holy Priesthood: Sacrament of Christ's Pastoral Charity". This talk is on the Sacred Heart and The Preisthood. Topics covered include:

• Devotion to sacred heart flows from the Eucharist
  
  
  
  • Card. Burke's own experience with devotion to the Sacred Heart
  
  
  • Draws all other devotion together for a priest
  
  
  • Pius XI 1928 Sacred Heart Miserentissimus Redemptor
    
    
    
    • http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_08051928_miserentissimus-redemptor.html
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Keeps priests focused on Christ and his sacraments
  
  
  • Avoids seeing priesthood as job but rather as an identity of shepherd
  
  
  
  


• Consecration of whole self to High Priest
  
  
  
  • Benedict XVI letter to seminarians 2010
    
    
    
    • http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/letters/2010/documents/hf_ben-xvi_let_20101018_seminaristi.html
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Keeps sacraments and liturgy focused on Christ
  
  
  • Post Vatican II reform lost focused on sacred heart encounter with Christ
  
  
  
  


• Holy Hour in front of Eucharist
  
  
  
  • Can hear words of Jesus to Martha Luke 10:41 you are anxious and troubled of many things only one is needed.
    
    
    
    • http://www.usccb.org/bible/luke/10:41
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Fulton Sheen a Priest is not His own
    
    
    
    • https://www.amazon.com/Priest-Not-His-Own/dp/1614279748
    
    
    • Holy hour is a private protracted audience
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Mother Louise Margaret Claret de la Touche - Sacred Heart and the Priesthood
    
    
    
    • http://www.amazon.com/Sacred-priesthood-Louise-Margaret-Claret/dp/B0007287S8
    
    
    • Locutions Jesus calls his priests to his heart during troubled times
    
    
    • Ocean of divine love come forth from it with renewed ardor
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Helps with maintaining priestly religious discipline and duty
  
  
  
  • Teaching office of the priest related to sacred heart combining pastoral charity and loving truth
  
  
  • Challenge during time of many errors hard to stand up and say what is right
  
  
  • Paul, preaching is first duty
  
  
  • In the heart of Jesus find strength to do this in these difficult times
  
  
  • Courage to die for all as Jesus did
  
  
  • Despite many negative, discouraging reactions
  
  
  
  


• Sacred Heart and Celibacy
  
  
  
  • helps embrace celibate love according to the Sacred Heart of Christ
  
  
  • To love the flock in chastity in the footsteps of Christ
  
  
  • John Paul II Celibacy Pastoris dabo Vobis
    
    
    
    • http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_25031992_pastores-dabo-vobis.html
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Singular sharing in God's Fatherhood
  
  
  • Eschatological Kingdom
  
  
  • Helps with patience, perseverance
  
  
  • become gentle and lowly of heart and so give rest of oneself to others
  
  
  
  


• Immaculate Heart
  
  
  
  • John 2:5 "Do what ever he tells you."
    
    
    
    • http://www.usccb.org/bible/John/2:5
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Divine mercy and love in Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart
  
  
  • St. Paul to Colossians 1:24 "Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking* in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church,"
    
    
    
    • http://www.usccb.org/bible/colossians/1:24
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

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