The Immaculata’s construction is Completed
$42 million is a lot of money that required a lot of sacrifice, so to all the benefactors that made this project possible: thank you very much.
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[Fr. Rutledge] Building a church is not just something that we are doing to solve an issue of space. I'll be as happy as you when we can stop having Masses in our Auditorium and having two of them so we can do an event like this; I'll be as happy as you are, but we are not just simply building a church to solve a space issue. We are building a House of God.
[Bishop Fellay] Certainly if you look at the history, one word which will come will be patience. Everything comes at its time. And so, it takes time. It takes time, and to see that now it is concrete, it gives us a hope. It is a hope that is not just remaining in the air, at a certain time it goes into action. There is a phrase in one of the Psalms which says: it's not us, it is God who did it.
[Fr. Wegner] This project is much more than simply a project of this little town in St. Marys in Kansas. It is a project that originates from our founder the Archbishop, who wanted to purchase the Jesuit campus and who wanted to continue this work of missions in the United States, who wanted especially to make this place a priestly place and a center from where the Faith goes out to other parts of the country and perhaps even the world.
[Fr. Rutledge] A lot of people have said: “Why are you spending $42 million on a church?” You know, Our Lord answered that already, He says “The poor you will always have with you.” We built this church for God not for ourselves, and you know, the church is the luxury of the poor, so that's why we have spent money to make sure that this church is beautiful and large for our needs. I'm quite proud that St. Marys has largely funded this project. From the start I said, you know even though we will appeal to people beyond and throughout the country and in the world, this needs to be our project to a certain degree. So I'm very proud that St. Marys has largely funded the project. But we must recognized too, that we have benefactors from close to 40 countries, from all 50 states, over 2400 donors and 1500 Guild members. From them we have received millions, and even those who have given their mite from across the pond or throughout the country, they have sacrificed a lot for this project. So thank you for all the benefactors worldwide, countrywide, from the greatest to the least. $42 million is a lot of money that required a lot of sacrifice, so to all the benefactors: thank you very much.
“What an immense joy today to receive from God a new church. ”
[Archbishop Lefebvre] I think that when Fr. Bolduc asked me to come here to know this place and to be sure that it is a good place for the progress of our fraternity, I think that this place in the center of America was a very good place to continue the church, the Catholic Church, to maintain the true Doctrine, and the true Faith and the true Sacrifice of the Mass. And after, I don't know, I think five years, now we can thank God for this gift of St. Marys.
Here in this Chapel, dear children, you receive many graces. If we heard the word of Our Lord, if here you receive the Body, the Blood, the Soul, the Divinity of Jesus Christ by the Eucharist, by the communion, that is a sign that in these bad times of confusion in the church, God gave many graces but in the Tradition, in the true Catholic Church.
