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Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P.
Fr. Kevin Gabriel Gillen, O.P., was ordained to the priesthood in 2000, Fr. Gillen joined the Order of Preachers in 2005 after earning degrees from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, commonly known as the Angelicum, in Rome. Prior to answering the call to priesthood he worked several years as a stock broker on Wall Street. Fr. Gillen is currently assigned to Saint Joseph in Greenwich Village, New York City, where he serves to promote evangelization through media for the Province and hosts the weekly program “Word to Life” on The Catholic Channel, Sirius 159 and XM 117.
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Mass in Honor of St. Pius V
Usus Antiquior at St. Mary Major
Posted by Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P. on April 28, 2010
In the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, the feast of Pope St. Pius V is April 30. In the Extraordinary Form, however, it is May 5. This year, the Basilica of St. Mary Major will observe the more ancient feast of this Dominican pope by celebrating Mass in his honor according to the usus antiquior (older use) of the Roman Rite, the use introduced to the Church by St. Pius himself in the middle of the sixteenth century.
St. Pius's relics are enshrined in the Blessed Sacrament chapel of St. Mary Major. The Mass will be celebrated in the basilica's Marian chapel, which is dedicated to Our Lady as "Health of the Roman People."
Fr. Vincenzo M. Nuara O.P. will be the celebrant of the feast day Mass. Father Nuara was recently appointed to the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei" of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Ecclesia Dei is the Vatican commission charged with overseeing the implementation Pope Benedict XVI's 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, which issued new guidelines for the celebration of the Church's liturgies according to the Extraordinary Form.