"There can be no genuine priestly ministry except in communion with the Supreme Pontiff and the Episcopal College, especially with one's own diocesan Bishop, who deserves that filial respect and obedience promised during the rite of ordination."
--Pope John Paul II (Pastores Dabo Vobis)
For the Bishop
Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord
to your servant our Bishop Michael Burbidge, that,
by preaching and doing such things as are right,
he may by the example of good works edify the minds of those
under his authority, and receive of Thee, most tender Shepherd,
an everlasting recompense and reward.
(The Prayer Book
Imprimatur Samuel Cardinal Stritch
Archbishop of Chicago May10, 1954)
