Video – Card. Burke – Priest and the New Evangelization – 7/8 – CONF 297

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Cardinal Raymond Burke gives the seventh reflection for the 2015 Priests' Retreat themed "Holy Priesthood: Sacrament of Christ's Pastoral Charity". This talk is titled "Priest and the New Evangelization". Topics covered include:

 

• Be faithful to call to evangelize action in a difficult times


• John Paul II Christifideles Laici
  
  
  
  • http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_30121988_christifideles-laici.html
  
  
  
  


• JPII Need of obedience


• Hard in our individualistic society


• Many Holy examples


• John Paul II apostolic letter Novo Millennio Ineunte 2000
  
  
  
  • http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/2001/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_20010106_novo-millennio-ineunte.html
  
  
  
  


• No magic formula but by a person and his assurance I am with you


• Jesus Christ alive for us in the Church


• Program is the same as ever


• Whole program is summed up in being holy and have indwelling Holy spirit


• Do you wish to evangelize then be holy


• Be perfect as I am, Holy


• Vat II this is not for the few but for the many


• Ways of holiness are many according to the many vocations


• Benedict XVI torn fabric Hermeneutic of Rupture 2005 Christmas
  
  
  
  • https://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/speeches/2005/december/documents/hf_ben_xvi_spe_20051222_roman-curia.html
  
  
  
  


• Council is not a constitution


• Cannot sing the church into being


• Since council but not because of it liturgical misuse an bad teaching, morals


• Benedict XVI tyranny of misunderstanding of freedom
  
  
  
  • http://www.vatican.va/gpII/documents/homily-pro-eligendo-pontifice_20050418_en.html
  
  
  
  


• John Paul II "as if God does not exist"


• Pride of Man not recognizing that we are created


• instead enslave ourselves to some created thing like sex, drugs, pornography


• Those that live by the Church are considered extremists


• Those that don't are extolled


• Dictatorship of Relativism Benedict XVI
  
  
  
  • http://www.vatican.va/gpII/documents/homily-pro-eligendo-pontifice_20050418_en.html
  
  
  
  


• must examine ideological foundations to root out


• Idea of no real bad or evil everything is dependent on circumstances


• Proportionalism or consequentialism causes confusion, disruption of ecclesiastical life


• Essential morals stay the same, hermeneutic of reform and continuity


• Responsibility to make principles of moral rectitude very clear to the world which God created


• Living in Christ, Christians become light and guide to the world


• Goal of Priests: View everything in the Church in the hermeneutic of continuity and reform


• Fix rupture in the fabric of christian society


• Must refer to Mother of God and be united to Immaculate Heart of Mary and so be united to Christ


• Our Program is Jesus Christ who we know and love in His Sacred heart and who alone we serve

 

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