Posted in Audio, Media, N.Y.C. on July 31st, 2009 No Comments »
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Joining me on the show today to discuss the readings for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time were Fr. Joseph Johnson, the rector of the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, MN, and Fr. Paul Keller, O.P., the president of the Society for Catholic [...]

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Posted in Audio, Media, N.Y.C. on July 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Joining me on the program this week to discuss Sunday’s readings were Br. James Brent, O.P., a deacon assigned for the summer to St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Zanesville, OH, and Fr. Jordan Kelly, O.P. who has recently moved to New York and will soon join the parish staff of the Church of St. Catherine [...]

Word to Life - July 24, 2009:
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Posted in Washington, D.C. on July 19th, 2009 No Comments »
On Sunday, Br. Paul Martin Kennedy, O.P., Br. Albert Duggan, O.P., and Br. Peter Martyr Joseph Yungwirth, O.P. visited the Dominican Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery in the Bronx. This monastery is the oldest Dominican monastery in the US (the former monastery in Newark was the oldest, but it now houses the novitiate for the Franciscan [...]
Posted in Washington, D.C. on July 17th, 2009 No Comments »
On Sunday, July 12, 2009 in the chapel of the Dominican House of Studies, the newly consecrated Archbishop Joseph Augustine DiNoia, OP, offered a Mass of Thanksgiving. The homily was preached by his classmate Fr. Gabriel O’Donnell, OP, Dean of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception. The video runs approximately 18 minutes.
Posted in Audio, Media, N.Y.C. on July 17th, 2009 No Comments »
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Joining me to discuss the readings for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time was Archbishop Augustine DiNoia, OP, the newly-appointed Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. In the context of his own recent ordination to the episcopacy, Archbishop DiNoia explained the role [...]

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Posted in Audio, Media on July 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Last Monday evening, Br. James Brent, O.P., appeared as a guest on “Catholic Answers Live,” a nationally syndicated Catholic radio program hosted by Patrick Coffin. The topic of Monday’s program was vocations. Click the link below to hear Br. James answer the question, “Is God Calling You?”
“Catholic Answers Live” airs live Monday through Friday beginning [...]
Fr. Luke Turon, OP, gives a talk on the relationship between St. Paul, his writings, and the Church. Fr. Luke took his first vows as a Dominican 60 years ago this year. For most of his Dominican life, Fr. Luke was a missionary in Pakistan. This lecture was given as a part of the Year [...]
Fr. Anthony Giambrone, OP, gives a talk on the proper way to understand the Old Testament. Using especially St. Paul and the New Testament, Fr. Anthony shows how Christ is the hermeneutical key to understanding the full meaning of God’s revelation in the Old Testament. This lecture was a part of the 2009 Summer Lecture [...]

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Posted in Other Provinces on July 15th, 2009 No Comments »
On February 16, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI announced the canonization of 10 new saints. Among those to be canonized was a Spanish Dominican priest, Bl. Francisco Coll y Guitart (1812-1875). Bl. Francisco is perhaps best known as the founder of the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The [...]
Posted in Washington, D.C. on July 14th, 2009 No Comments »
Many Dominican friars, sisters and laity were present for the episcopal ordination of Archbishop Augustine DiNoia, OP, on Saturday, July 11. Our novices made the 9 hour trip from Cincinnati and our postulants (pictured below with Postulant Director, Fr. Steven Alcott, O.P.) made the long trip from Providence, R.I.. To read up on the new [...]
Posted in Province on July 14th, 2009 No Comments »
Recently, Frs. Pius Pietrzyk, OP, and Michael Dosch, OP, led a youth pilgrimage to the great Marian Shrine of Lourdes in France. This was a part of the 2009 U.S. Rosary Pilgrimage. The Pilgrimage included not only Lourdes, but holy sites in Paris, Nevers, and Lisieux. While in Lourdes, they met up with three of [...]
Posted in Washington, D.C. on July 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Archbishop Augustine DiNoia, O.P. celebrated his Mass of Thanksgiving this morning in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies. Below are some photos from the Mass.
Please continue to keep Archbishop DiNoia in your prayers as he travels back to Rome to work toward explaining the sacredness and beauty of the [...]
Posted in Washington, D.C. on July 12th, 2009 No Comments »
One of the many impressive elements of yesterday’s ordination was the brief series of acknowledgments Archbishop DiNoia delivered at the end of Mass. His words were striking both for their focus and for the intense emotion with which he delivered them.
All Dominican hearts will be duly moved by his sentiments.
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Posted in Washington, D.C. on July 11th, 2009 No Comments »
This afternoon, Dominican friar Rev. Augustine DiNoia, OP was ordained an archbishop by William Cardinal Levada in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Archbishop DiNoia serves as the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. He was ordained as the first Titular Archbishop of Oregon [...]
Posted in Audio, Media, N.Y.C. on July 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Click below to hear Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP, discuss the readings for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time with Fr. Gabriel Gillen, OP, and Fr. Bruno Shah, OP.
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Posted in Washington, D.C. on July 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
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Eleven men begin their postulancy July 5 at Providence College in Providence, R.I. Read the brief biographies of these 11 to find out what sort of men God is drawing to the Province of St. Joseph.
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Huy Hoang, 22
I was born in Lemoore, California but was raised in Woodbridge, Virginia. I am the [...]
Posted in Washington, D.C. on July 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
Br. Albert Duggan, O.P. and Br. Peter Martyr Joseph Yungwirth, O.P. were assigned to work with the Missionaries of Charity in the Bronx through the summer. After spending two weeks working in a soup kitchen and a night shelter, the brothers just finished a week of preparation for a summer camp which the Missionaries run [...]