From Desiderium...
Cardinal Raymond Burke, Prefect of the
Apostolic Signatura in the Vatican, celebrated a Pontifical High Mass
in the Extraordinary Form at the Marian Sanctuary in Knock County Mayo
on Saturday the 10th of September.
His Eminence was formally welcomes by
the Parish Priest of Knock who hosted a private dinner for the Cardinal
with a few invited guests who included Archbishop Michael Neary of Tuam
and Bishop Brendan Kelly of Achonry diocese. The Cardinal began the
Saturday with a conference on human life which he said is sacred from
the first moment of conception to its natural end. “Human life has value
even in those who society seems to no longer care about” he said to
those who attended in the only basilica in Ireland at Knock. He spoke
about the attack on the Catholic Church worldwide because of its defence
not only of human life but because of its defence of the truth “and
when we see the ferocity of these attacks especially here in Ireland we
can see it is Satan himself who is behind it” he said.
Later in the day the Cardinal
celebrated the Pontifical High Mass in the Parish Church of Saint John
the Baptist to a packed congregation. The mass itself took just under
two hours to celebrate and the homily was given after the final blessing
and in accordance to the rubric of the 1962 Missale Romanum. This was
the first Pontifical High Mass to be celebrated in 61 years at the
Marian Sanctuary; the last one was by Cardinal D’Alton in 1950 in
celebrated thank-giving for the Dogma of the Assumption which was
proclaimed by Pope Pius XII on November 1st 1950. (End)
Report-William A. Thomas
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