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Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.
Father Dominic Legge, OP, is a Dominican priest teaching theology at Providence College in Rhode Island. Before he became a Dominican, he worked on constitutional issues as a lawyer for the U.S. Department of Justice. Father Legge writes on theology and liturgy in the daily lives of contemporary Catholics.
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- Mary, Bearer of the Word
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- The Roaring '20s at DHS
- The Martyrdom of St. John of Cologne
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- The Riches of a Dominican Holy Week: Adoring the Cross on Good Friday
- The Riches of a Dominican Holy Week: Holy Thursday
- The Riches of a Dominican Holy Week: Palm Sunday
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Mary, Bearer of the Word
Homily of Fr. Giles Dimock, O.P. at the Dominican House of Studies for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Posted by Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. on July 13, 2011
When you entered our front hall, you encountered the portrait of Fr. Lawrence Kearney, O.P., who had this priory built after Cardinal Gibbons invited the Dominican Friars to make a foundation near the new Catholic University of America. Fr. Kearney studied in Louvain, Belgium, after Leo XIII's encouragement of Thomistic studies. Louvain was the place to study St. Thomas then.
Fr. Kearney seemed… » More
St. Thomas on the Preacher's Vocation
A Homily of Fr. Jean-Pierre Torrell, O.P.
Posted by Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. on January 14, 2011
Fr. Jean-Pierre Torrell, O.P., professor emeritus of the University of Fribourg, is one of the world's leading scholars of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. His two-volume biography of the Angelic Doctor, St Thomas Aquinas : The Person and His Work (vol. 1) and Spiritual Master (vol. 2), is already a classic.
Like all theologians (at least, I think it's true for all), I pay close attention to… » More
The Roaring '20s at DHS
Priestly Ordinations, Processions, Musical Interludes, and Harding as President!
Posted by Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. on January 12, 2011
Hidden in a dusty box for 90 years, these newly-discovered photos provide a fascinating glimpse into the past - including a detailed series from the priestly ordinations held at the Dominican House of Studies on June 12, 1921. The photos form part of a scrapbook of the Dominican ordination class of 1921. That year, they were 14. What the photos lack in quality, they make up in historical interest!… » More
The Martyrdom of St. John of Cologne
Priest and Martyr of the 16th Century
Posted by Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. on July 09, 2010
Today, the Dominican Order celebrates St. John of Cologne, a Dominican priest and martyr of the 16th century. The Dominican priory in Krakow (the oldest Dominican priory in continuous existence; it dates from 1221) has this huge image in its cloister walk, depicting John's martyrdom and those of his companions (they are hanging on a gallows in the background).
An account of St. John's martyrdom… » More
3 Priests and 160 Years of Priestly Service
Homily of Fr. David Folsey, O.P.
Posted by Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. on May 24, 2010
Dominican Jubilarians: Frs. David Folsey, Alan Morris, and Damien Myett.
On Saturday, May 22, the Priory of St. Thomas Aquinas at Providence College celebrated three anniversaries of long-serving Dominican priests. Fr. Alan Morris, O.P., ordained a priest in 1950, celebrated 60 years as a priest, while Frs. David Folsey, O.P., and Damien Myett, O.P., ordained together in 1960, both celebrated 50 years of priesthood. In this Year of the Priest, what a joy it is to have… » More
The Riches of a Dominican Holy Week: Adoring the Cross on Good Friday
Posted by Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. on April 02, 2010
Fra Angelico's "Saint Dominic Adoring the Crucifixion" (1440s); Convento di San Marco, Florence
Detail, St. Dominic Embracing the Cross by Fra Angelico (Convent of San Marco, Florence).
Silent. Bare. Empty. For a Dominican Friar accustomed to entering the priory chapel throughout the day, every day, the change is striking. Our Lord has been taken from us, seized, as it were, from the garden. The Bridegroom's friends fast on this day.
If you arrive in choir early, you can watch the Friars as they enter and go to their choir stalls. Some begin to genuflect, and then remember that… » More
The Riches of a Dominican Holy Week: Holy Thursday
Posted by Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. on April 01, 2010
"The Washing of the Feet" by Duccio (14th cent., Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena, Italy)
Holy Thursday marks the beginning of the great Paschal Triduum, and one immediately notices the changes it brings to the rhythm of life of a Dominican Priory. There is no morning Mass - and when one is accustomed to the consoling graces of the Eucharist to start the day, this is a very significant change. Also, the white Dominican habit will, from this evening until the Gloria sounds at the Easter… » More
The Riches of a Dominican Holy Week: Palm Sunday
Posted by Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. on March 29, 2010
Giotto's "Entry into Jerusalem" (1304-06); Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
From the Holy Week liturgies flows a stream of the sweetest waters of contemplation, and the best way to drink deeply of these delights is by living out the liturgy in its fullness in the life of a Dominican priory. The proper Dominican elements of our contemporary liturgy preserved in the Dominican celebration of the Novus Ordo - elements that go back to the primitive Dominican liturgy codified… » More
Tolkein’s Guide to Good Preaching
Echoes of St. Dominic
Posted by Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. on December 22, 2009
J.R.R. Tolkein was a man with an acute awareness of the profound truth of Christianity, and a great artist's sense of how to make that truth come alive in surprising and stirring ways (as a careful reading of his Lord of the Rings trilogy reveals). As preachers of the Catholic faith - which we as Dominicans are by vocation and profession - we could do worse than his advice about how to preach well.… » More
Dominicans with the Pope
A Mass with the International Theological Commission
Posted by Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. on December 04, 2009
Thanks in part to the initiative of Fr. Benedict Croell, O.P., one of our Friars pursing advanced studies at the Angelicum in Rome, we can enjoy these photos of a Mass the Holy Father celebrated recently with members of the International Theological Commission.
The photos allow us to admire the beauty of the newly-renovated Pauline Chapel located within the Apostolic Palace. Also, in the first… » More
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