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Fr. Bruno M. Shah, O.P.
Fr. Shah was clothed in the Dominican habit in 2003 and ordained to the priesthood in 2009. His earlier studies were in religion, philosophy, and education. He is an adult convert. Before entering the Order, he worked for a high school run by the (French) Christian Brothers on the Lower East-Side, NY, NY; he taught in the Literature and Religion departments for three years. It was during this time that he discerned his call to an active, priestly ministry, focused on doctrinal preaching, and necessarily flowing from contemplative study and communal religious observance.
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Sirius XM Radio, August 19th, 2011
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)
Posted by Fr. Bruno M. Shah, O.P. on August 21, 2011
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Priest from the archdiocese of New York Fr. Thomas D'Angelo and Dominican Friar from St. Albert the Great Province (Central) Fr. Dominic Holtz, O.P. join in the discussion of this Sunday's lessons.
The Friendship of Christ & Our Highest Ideals
World Youth Day
Posted by Fr. Bruno M. Shah, O.P. on August 18, 2011
From Our Holy Father's Address at his welcome ceremony in Madrid's World Youth Day:
"I have come here to meet thousands of young people from all over the world, Catholics committed to Christ searching for the Truth that will give real meaning to their existence. I come as the Successor of Peter, to confirm them all in the faith, with days of intense pastoral activity, proclaiming that Jesus Christ… » More
Sirius XM Radio: August 12, 2011
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)
Posted by Fr. Bruno M. Shah, O.P. on August 12, 2011
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Christ and the Canaanite Woman, Rembrandt (ca. 1650)
Deacon Greg Kandra joins Fr. Bruno M. Shah for "Word to Life." Deacon Kandra is the author of the blog, The Deacon's Bench, and is the Executive Editor of One, the magazine of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) -- a papal agency that provides humanitarian aid and supports the pastoral outreach of the Eastern Catholic churches. Before his ordination to the diaconate, Deacon Kandra wrote… » More
Fr. Busa, RIP
Techne Serving Sophia
Posted by Fr. Bruno M. Shah, O.P. on August 12, 2011
Roberto Busa, S.J. (1913-2011)
For most of us who study St. Thomas, the inestimable good rendered by the Index Thomisticus is indisputable. Although the web version is less than 10 years old, Fr. Roberto Busa S.J.'s endeavor began in the early fifties, when he solicited the know-how of IBM to yield a virtually exhausitve word and phrase search from all of St. Thomas's texts!
Having entered the Society in 1933 and been ordained… » More
Poetry and Preachers
The Grace of the Word
Posted by Fr. Bruno M. Shah, O.P. on August 09, 2011
Dominican preaching flows from the studied pursuit of wisdom and the orchestrated repose of contemplation. With the friar's life accordingly organized, his otherwise mundane endeavors of observation and speech increase in spiritual attunement. More and more, he desires to see all things clearly and deeply, and he is better disposed to speak authentically of God's provident mercy. As we read in the… » More
Holy Father Dominic
Happy Feast!
Posted by Fr. Bruno M. Shah, O.P. on August 08, 2011
[Our Holy Father the Pope's reflections on the charism of our Holy Father St. Dominic, excerpted from the Wednesday Audience 3 February 2010]
.... This great Saint reminds us that in the heart of the Church a missionary fire must always burn.... Dominic wanted to give special importance to two values he deemed indispensable for the success of the evangelizing mission: community life in poverty… » More
Sirius XM Radio: August 5, 2011
19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)
Posted by Fr. Bruno M. Shah, O.P. on August 05, 2011
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Landscape with the Prophet Elijah - Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651)
Provincial Fr. Brian Mulcahy, O.P. and Brooklyn priest Fr. Thomas Caserta join Fr. Bruno M. Shah, O.P. to discuss this upcoming Sunday's readings.
Summer Reading
A few possibilities
Posted by Fr. Bruno M. Shah, O.P. on July 17, 2011
Here are some possible titles to consider, if not to read cover-to-cover, at least to introduce into your library.
View and print out the pamphlet here.
And go here if you want to see this past winter's or last summer's suggestions. Enjoy!
Habemus Papam Beatum!
Pope Benedict XVI declares John Paul II Blessed
Posted by Fr. Bruno M. Shah, O.P. on May 01, 2011
Te Deum laudamus!
Here is Pope Benedict XVI's homily for the Mass of beatification:
Dear Brothers and Sisters,Six years ago we gathered in this Square to celebrate the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Our grief at his loss was deep, but even greater was our sense of an immense grace which embraced Rome and the whole world: a grace which was in some way the fruit of my beloved predecessor's entire… » More
Do This in Memory of Me
Holy Thursday
Posted by Fr. Bruno M. Shah, O.P. on April 21, 2011
Christ Washing the Feet of His Disciples, Detail (Tintoretto, 1547)
The genius of symbolic action is that it clarifies reality by first confusing it. A "sym-bol" literally throws things together. Through a unique collaboration of words, signs, gestures, and meanings, a significance erupts that could not otherwise be communicated. Symbolism is the instrument of possibility.
If this sounds pedantic or abstract, we ought to recognize that symbolical action is directly… » More
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