CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- As he was installed in the Diocese of Lincoln on Tuesday, Bishop James D. Conley stressed the need for bishops and all Catholics to be holy so that the Gospel will impact the culture and the Church will prosper.<\/p>\n\t\u201cMy brother bishops, there is nothing more important for a bishop than the care of souls,\u201d he said in his Nov. 20 homily. \u201cIf the Church is to flourish in the world today, if the New Evangelization is to really take root, if we are to truly build a culture of life \u2013 holiness must begin with us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe installation Mass began at 2 p.m. local time in Lincoln\u2019s Cathedral of the Risen Christ.<\/p>\n
\tDozens of priests and bishops processed up to the altar. Their procession was flanked by a Knights of Columbus honor guard and followed by the Knights and Ladies of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre.<\/p>\n
\tAmong the more than 40 archbishops, bishops and abbots in attendance were apostolic nuncio Archbishop Carlo Vigano, emeritus Bishop of Lincoln Fabian Bruskewitz, Archbishop George Lucas of Omaha, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia and Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
\tBishop Conley\u2019s childhood friend, Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, was also among the\u00a0 bishops in attendance.<\/p>\n
\tThe new Bishop of Lincoln\u2019s homily focused on the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the sufferings of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cChrist crucified is the beautiful and harrowing mystery of our faith. It seems inconceivable, unreasonable, and unjust that the God of the universe conquers death by dying on a cross,\u201d he said. \u201cThe scandal of the Incarnation is that Christ became man to die on a cross, between two criminals, so that we could share in the life of God for all eternity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cBut the love of God is found precisely at the foot of the Cross,\u201d he said. \u201cWe gaze at the crucified Christ because the crucifixion leads to the victory.\u201d
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\n\tBishop Conley remembered his time in a rural monastery in France and his youthful effort at truck farming in north central Kansas near the Nebraska border.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThose are the places where I learned to pray. Those are the places where I learned to hear the voice of the Lord. The rhythms of the rural life are at the heart of my own spiritual life,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I\u2019m grateful to the Lord that has brought me here to Lincoln.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe bishop credited his attendance at Blessed John Paul II\u2019s papal Mass in Iowa in 1979 for helping inspire his own vocation to the priesthood. The Pope \u201cradiated joy and hope\u201d despite his sufferings under the Nazis and the Communists, he recalled.<\/p>\n
\tBishop Conley then addressed each of the groups present: the bishops who preceded him, the priests and religious of the diocese and the laity.
\n\tHe expressed gratitude for the diocese\u2019s \u201crich Catholic history\u201d and the leadership of his predecessors Bishop Bruskewitz and Bishop Glennon Flavin.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cIf the Church is to flourish in the world today, if the New Evangelization is to really take root, if we are to truly build a culture of life \u2013 holiness must begin with us,\u201d he told his brother bishops.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cLast week in Baltimore, Cardinal Dolan put it like this: \u2018we cannot engage culture unless we allow him to first engage us.\u2019<\/p>\n
\t\u201cAnd, if we want the New Evangelization to take root, it starts on our knees with the conversion of our own hearts,\u201d Bishop Conley stated.<\/p>\n
\tThe bishop urged his diocese\u2019s priests to contact him whenever they need to and to pray for him, as he will pray for them always.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cYou were made for greatness. We are all made for greatness. And your bishop wants nothing more from you than sanctity. The Church needs holy priests now more than ever,\u201d he said, encouraging priests and bishops to make their priesthood \u201ccharacterized by joy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cOur sufferings can transform our hearts into the Sacred Heart of Jesus. They can allow us to love as Christ loves,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\tHe thanked vowed religious men and women for their witness to Jesus and he called seminarians \u201ca supreme blessing to the diocese.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tHe also had a message for the laity.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cYour greatest vocation is to holiness,\u201d he said. \u201cYour holiness can transform the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tBishop Conley, 57, was made auxiliary bishop of Denver in 2008. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri and lived briefly in Colorado before moving to Kansas as a child. He was raised Presbyterian and converted to Catholicism in part because of his experiences as a student at the University of Kansas Integrated Humanities Program in the 1970s. He was ordained a priest in 1985 for the Diocese of Wichita.<\/p>\n
\tThere are over 96,000 Catholics in the Diocese of Lincoln, out of a total population of 588,000. The diocese has 150 diocesan priests, 141 religious sisters, and 44 seminarians. There are 134 parishes in the diocese and over 7,600 primary and secondary students in 27 Catholic elementary schools and six Catholic high schools.<\/p>\n
\tThe diocese is the home of a diocesan seminary and the seminary of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, a priestly society dedicated to the celebration of the Tridentine Latin Mass.<\/p>\n
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