Posted in Ohio, Zanesville - St. Thomas on September 29th, 2008 No Comments »
The Zanesville Times Recorder also recently published a story on Fr. Jordan Turano, OP, the recently installed pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas parish in Zanesville, OH. Fr. Jordan assumed the office of pastor this past July, having previously ministered as the chaplain of Walsh University in Youngstown, OH.
Also in the last year, the interior of [...]
Posted in Ohio, Somerset - St. Joseph, Washington, D.C. on September 29th, 2008 No Comments »
This past Sunday, Bishop Frederick Campbell, the Bishop of Columbus, OH, said Mass commemorating the 200th anniversary of the first Mass said in the territory of Ohio. In 1808, the Dittoe family of central Ohio petition Bishop Carroll of Baltimore to send a priest into Ohio to provide sacraments for the Catholics there. In turn [...]
Posted in Audio, Washington, D.C. on September 29th, 2008 No Comments »
September 29, 2005
Feast day of Sts. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels
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Posted in N.Y.C., Saint Vincent Ferrer on September 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP, discusses the readings for the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time with Angelo Matera, editor and publisher of Godspy.com, and Fr. Dominic Legge, OP, a professor of theology at Providence College.
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Posted in N.Y.C., Saint Vincent Ferrer on September 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
The second lesson in today’s Office of Readings has been a favorite of mine for years. In it we glimpse the fiery passion that should inflame the heart of every pastor.
Because his monastic prayer and priestly office produces in him an unquenchable thirst for souls, St. Augustine finds himself in an apparent clash of [...]
Posted in N.Y.C., Saint Vincent Ferrer on September 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP, discusses the readings for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time with Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, OP, and Fr. James Moore, OP.
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Posted in Pope Benedict XVI on September 20th, 2008 No Comments »
In the midst of disasters both natural and man-made, the American press had little time this week time to cover Pope Benedict’s pilgrimage to Paris and Lourdes. Consequently, many of us may have not heard that France’s welcome of the Successor of St. Peter was better than expected. More disappointing is the fact that little [...]
Posted in Washington, D.C. on September 17th, 2008 No Comments »
If you want to know what seminarians are reading in their spare time these days, one needs to look at a book by Fr. Basil Cole, O.P. — a professor of Moral and Spiritual Theology at the Dominican House of Studies. His recent book The Hidden Enemies of the Priesthood has become something of a rage among [...]
Posted in House of Studies, Washington, D.C. on September 15th, 2008 No Comments »
The annual Archdiocese of Washington Marian Pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception will be on October 9, 2008. The pilgrimage will begin with the recitation of the rosary at 2:30 p.m., followed by a 3:00 p.m. Mass. Theodore Cardinal McCarrick will be the principal celebrant for the Mass.
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Posted in N.Y.C., Saint Catherine, Washington, D.C. on September 14th, 2008 No Comments »
The Dominican banner is not gray-somewhat white and somewhat black-rather, it is dramatically black and white, with all the virtues of blackness and whiteness fully expressed. From the beginning we have always had a capacity for combining furious opposites, by “keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.” We are, so to speak, mobile monks [...]
Posted in N.Y.C., Saint Vincent Ferrer on September 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP, discusses the readings for this Sunday’s Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross with Fr. Luke Sweeney, Vocation Director of the Archdiocese of New York, Deacon Vincent Druding, a fourth-year theologian at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Dunwoodie, and Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP, professor of theology at the House of Studies.
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Posted in Washington, D.C. on September 12th, 2008 No Comments »
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Lourdes, and as of today the Pope has arrived in France to mark the anniverary. Dominicans are also marking the anniversary. The popular missal Magnificat, edited by Fr. Peter John Cameron, O.P., has compiled a large but inexpensive book recounting 150 miracles of Lourdes — one miracle for [...]
Posted in Providence College on September 10th, 2008 No Comments »
“Priests who like being priests are among the happiest men in the world.” So begins an article by Fr. John Jay Hughes on The Catholic Thing . He says exactly what I feel as a new Dominican priest (and much more eloquently, too!). Read it here.
Posted in Washington, D.C. on September 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Several priests, deacons, and student brothers of the Province of St. Joseph have teamed up with Catholic Exchange to offer a specialty site on bioethics . All the columnists for this site are Eastern Province Dominicans who specialize in some area of ethics and bioethics, and they are making their knowledge and understanding of Catholic teaching available [...]
