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Fr. Brian Mulcahy, O.P.
The Very Rev. Brian Martin Mulcahy, O.P., is the Prior Provincial of the Province of St. Joseph.
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Presidential Nomination of a Dominican Friar
Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, O.P., nominated to the Legal Services Corporation
Posted by Fr. Brian Mulcahy, O.P. on June 26, 2010
Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, O.P.
On Friday June 25, President Barack Obama announced the nomination of Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, OP, as a member of the board of directors of the Legal Services Corporation. Fr. Pius was recommended to this position by Sen. Mitch McConnell, of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) was established in 1974 and operates as an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that promotes… » More
Dominican Mission in Mexicali
An Update from Fr. Joseph Barranger, O.P.
Posted by Fr. Brian Mulcahy, O.P. on May 18, 2010
About 10 days ago we posted news here about the earthquake and recovery efforts in Mexicali, Mexico on the Baja Peninsula, where our brother, Fr. Joseph Barranger, O.P., is working alongside our brothers in the Western Province. Here is Fr. Joseph’s latest update of the situation. If you would like to assist the rebuilding of the Dominican mission in Mexicali, email Fr. Joseph by clicking here.… » More
Third Sunday of Lent—Year C
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Posted by Fr. Brian Mulcahy, O.P. on March 06, 2010
The accident at a construction site in which eighteen people lost their lives when a tower collapsed on them would most likely have faded into the mists of oblivion had not our Lord in today's Gospel used the accident as an example to teach us about the meaning of human suffering. And perhaps the most important thing our Lord teaches us about suffering from this example is that not all… » More
Second Sunday of Lent—Year C
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Posted by Fr. Brian Mulcahy, O.P. on February 27, 2010
They were tired. They were anxious. They were headed for Jerusalem. And the Master had said that it was in Jerusalem that He would be handed over to evil men to be put to death, but that on the third day, He would rise again...whatever that meant. And the Lord Jesus knew what was in their hearts. He knew what they had had to bear over the past three years since they had become His… » More
First Sunday of Lent
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Posted by Fr. Brian Mulcahy, O.P. on February 24, 2010
The Temptation of Christ in the Desert
At the start of every Lenten Season, on the First Sunday of Lent, the Church, in her wisdom, always gives us the account of our Lord's Temptation in the Desert for our consideration and reflection. The temptations that Christ suffered in the desert for forty days at the start of His public ministry were not His first temptations, nor would they be the last temptation of Christ. In St. Luke's account… » More
Homily for Christmas
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Posted by Fr. Brian Mulcahy, O.P. on December 24, 2009
"Adoration fused with human love, and was not separate."
While they were there, the time came for her to have her child, and she gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped Him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Et Verbum caro factum est. And the Word became flesh. Et habitavit in nobis. And dwelt among us.
This is what we celebrate this night, or better I should… » More
Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Advent—Year C
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Posted by Fr. Brian Mulcahy, O.P. on December 19, 2009
The creche in St Peter's Square
Promises! Promises!
Everyone's making promises, but what about action? Show me someone who can live up to his or her promises, and I'll be satisfied! Otherwise...don't make me any promises you can't keep!
Unfulfilled promises...broken promises...singers love to sing about them; dramatists love to explore the heartbreak of them; and we, often enough, are weighed down,… » More
Everyone's making promises, but what about action? Show me someone who can live up to his or her promises, and I'll be satisfied! Otherwise...don't make me any promises you can't keep!
Unfulfilled promises...broken promises...singers love to sing about them; dramatists love to explore the heartbreak of them; and we, often enough, are weighed down,… » More
Homily for Gaudete Sunday—Year C
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Posted by Fr. Brian Mulcahy, O.P. on December 12, 2009
St Paul the Apostle
"Rejoice in the Lord always! I shall say it again, Rejoice!" St Paul tells us in our second reading from his Letter to the Philippians. We Catholics have referred to this Third Sunday of Advent as "Gaudete Sunday" or "Rejoice Sunday" from the first word in Latin of the entrance antiphon for Mass today, taken from this very verse of Philippians, "Gaudete semper in Domino!"
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Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Advent—Year C
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Posted by Fr. Brian Mulcahy, O.P. on December 04, 2009
John the Baptist preaching
Besides being difficult to pronounce, the names and places listed at the beginning of today's Gospel ("Who was tetrarch where?') are St Luke's way of saying: "This is how it happened. This is how we knew God was about to manifest His Anointed One to the world, because first He sent us a prophet. There was once again a prophet in Israel, as in the days of our ancestors, and his name was John,… » More
Homily for the First Sunday of Advent—Year C
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Posted by Fr. Brian Mulcahy, O.P. on November 28, 2009
How's this for a Christmas wish list? May the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we have for you, so as to strengthen your hearts, to be blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of the Lord Jesus with all His holy ones.
This was St Paul's wish for the early Christians at Thessalonica, as we heard in our second reading,… » More