As Cardinal Raymond Burke and the Institute in Europe were making their annual pilgrimage of vocations to the Basilica of St. Therese in Lisieux, France, on October 15, the canons and faithful of the Institute in the American Midwest made their first pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Robinsonville, near Green Bay, Wisconsin.
From August 29-September 2, members of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest began the five day, annual Chapter at the Motherhouse in Gricigliano, Italy, with adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and a solemn invocation of the Holy Ghost through the Chant of the Veni Creator Spiritus.
The week of summer camp from August 1-5 opened with a beautiful ceremony in which the camp was consecrated to the Blessed Mother.
The children of the Institute's American apostolates, filled with fond memories of last year's choir camp, returned to Kentucky last week with great enthusiasm and met up with old friends from around the country.
DEO GRATIAS! This year's Boys' Youth Camp was very successful thanks to the good weather and the help by the faithful of St. Mary's Oratory.
On Monday, July 4, ten first-year seminarians (including five Americans) and one oblate received the cassock from the Institute's Prior General, Monsignor Gilles Wach in the beautiful Florentine Church of Saints Michael and Gaetano.
Young men and women came from all parts of the U.S.
On Ember Saturday in the Octave of Pentecost, June 18, His Grace, the Most Reverend Jerome E. Listecki, Archbishop of Milwaukee, conferred the Sacrament of Confirmation in the Extraordinary Form on nearly fifty candidates at St. Stanislaus Oratory.
From the four corners of the United States dozens of friends of the Institute came to the Shrine of Christ the King in Chicago for the national retreat of the lay Society of the Sacred Heart.
On May 28-29, 2011, the Institute's superiors, canons, seminarians, and sisters made a pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, with His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura.