Blessed Stanley Rother, A New Saintly Priest | Bishop Daniel Mueggenborg

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This lecture was given at the Catholic University of America on May 16, 2023 as part of the Thomistic Institute symposium titled "Toward a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Bishop Daniel Mueggenborg has served as bishop for the Diocese of Reno in Nevada since 2021. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Seattle in Washington State from 2017 to 2021. He completed a Licentiate degree in Biblical Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1990. During his 30+ years as a priest, Bishop Mueggenborg has served as parochial vicar and pastor in several parishes and in a variety of ministerial roles, including high school chaplain and teacher, Newman Center chaplain, Director of Clergy and Education, and Vicar for Religious. He also served on the administrative staff of the Pontifical North American College and was adjunct professor at the Gregorian University.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:05.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:12.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:18.1	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at
0:21.5	to mystic institute.org. Our final speaker for the session is Bishop Daniel Mugendborg,
0:31.5	who originally was from Oklahoma and became auxiliary bishop of Seattle, and most recently in 2022, the Bishop of Reno, Nevada.
0:40.3	I was told that Bishop Mugendborg met and served Mass with Blessed Stanley Rother,
0:48.3	who recently has been beatified, a martyr, American martyr of the church.
0:53.3	And I mentioned that because Bishop
0:55.6	Mugamberg will speak on Blessed Stanley as a model for priesthood. So welcome, Bishop.
1:06.2	Thank you. It's always an honor for me to speak about the importance of Blessed Stanley Rother for the
1:12.6	contemporary church and especially for priests. Anytime I reflect on the life of a holy person,
1:19.8	I remember an experience I had when I was a recently ordained priest in my very first parish assignment,
1:26.6	and we were nearing the solemnity of all saints.
1:30.2	And the first grade teacher in our parochial school asked if I would teach her class since
1:36.6	she was non-Catholic and didn't feel competent to teach about the saints. So I agreed.
1:43.1	Now, 10 years of university education had not prepared me to deal with a
1:47.7	classroom of first graders. So I decided to see what the children already knew. So I asked,
1:53.7	okay, class, can anyone tell me who the saints are? And one very energetic kid named Charlie was jumping out of his seat,
2:03.6	raising his hand, and really ready to answer that question. And since he was the only one in a
2:09.6	room full of otherwise blank stairs, I decided to call on him. Okay, Charlie, who are the saints? And his honest response was this. He said,
2:21.8	the saints are the people in the window, the light shines through. What a perfect response.
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