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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.
Landscape with the Prophet Elijah - Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651)
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Sirius XM Satellite Radio
The Catholic Channel 129
Posted by Br. Innocent Smith, O.P. on July 25, 2011
In this video you can see Dominican Friars at the Manhattan studio of Sirius XM 129 -- The Catholic Chanel. "Word to Life" is broadcast on Sirius XM Satellite Radio 129 with Father Gabriel Gillen on Fridays at 12 pm ET and rebroadcast on Saturdays at 2 am ET. The show helps us to understand God's Word, and how to live it out in our daily lives, with a contemporary and insightful look at our Sunday readings.
In this video you can see Dominican Friars at the Manhattan studio of Sirius XM 129 -- The Catholic Chanel. "Word to Life" is broadcast on Sirius XM Satellite Radio 129 with Father Gabriel Gillen on Fridays at 12 pm ET and rebroadcast on Saturdays at 2 am ET. The show helps us to understand God's Word, and how to live it out in our daily lives, with a contemporary and insightful look at our Sunday readings.
Dominican Daily
Manhattan Pilgrimage Slideshow
Photographs from St. John of Gorcum Pilgrimage
Posted by Br. Innocent Smith, O.P. on July 20, 2011
In the slideshow above, you may view photographs from the July 9, 2011 Manhattan Pilgrimage, in which a group of about thirty lay people and religious visited seven churches in Manhattan, singing and praying the rosary along the way. To read more about the pilgrimage, read Br. Raphael Forbing's report.
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Playing the flute for charity
Dominican brother participates in folk music CD fundraiser
Posted by Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P. on July 19, 2011
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Br. Innocent playing the flute at the 2009 Provincial Assembly in Providence, RI.
Br. Innocent Smith, O.P., a student brother of the Province of St. Joseph, recently recorded a track of Irish dance music on the wooden flute for a CD fundraiser project for his alma mater, St. Gregory's Academy, a boarding school in Northeastern Pennsylvannia. You can listen to a preview of the track with the player at the top of the post. The CD brings together alumni of the Academy who sing and play traditional folk music of Ireland, Scotland, and America. The CD title, "Soulbutter & Hogwash", is taken from a description of music in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: "Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully."
To purchase the CD, visit this site. All of the proceeds go to support St. Gregory's Academy. To read a reflection on the importance of folk music by Br. Innocent, see the latest issue of Dominicana.
Br. Innocent playing the flute at the 2009 Provincial Assembly in Providence, RI.
Br. Innocent Smith, O.P., a student brother of the Province of St. Joseph, recently recorded a track of Irish dance music on the wooden flute for a CD fundraiser project for his alma mater, St. Gregory's Academy, a boarding school in Northeastern Pennsylvannia. You can listen to a preview of the track with the player at the top of the post. The CD brings together alumni of the Academy who sing and play traditional folk music of Ireland, Scotland, and America. The CD title, "Soulbutter & Hogwash", is taken from a description of music in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: "Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully."
To purchase the CD, visit this site. All of the proceeds go to support St. Gregory's Academy. To read a reflection on the importance of folk music by Br. Innocent, see the latest issue of Dominicana.
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!
Dominican Daily
Manhattan Pilgrimage
Friars and Laity visit Seven Churches in Manhattan
Posted by Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P. on July 14, 2011
On July 9th, the Memorial of St. John of Gorcum, about 30 men and women made an eight-mile pilgrimage through the streets of Manhattan, singing and praying along the way. This pilgrimage is part of a growing tradition in the Province of St. Joseph. Organized and implemented by the Dominican student brothers, these pilgrimages seek to foster devotion and fraternal charity amongst the pilgrims and to provide public witness to the faith.
The Manhattan pilgrimage included seven churches: beginning at the Church of Notre Dame near Columbia University, the pilgrimage proceeded to Saint Jean Baptiste, St. Vincent Ferrer, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Church of Our Savior, and ended at St. Joseph's Church in Greenwich Village for holy Mass and a cookout. The pilgrims prayed the Liturgy of the Hours throughout the day, and received special blessings from the pastors and priests of the parishes. The route chosen took the pilgrims through Central Park, where Cleopatra's Needle provided shade during one of the liturgical hours of the Divine Office.
The pilgrims formed a diverse cross-section of the Church. Six Dominican friars and two Franciscan Friars of the Renewal took part, along with twenty-some lay pilgrims ranging from families pushing strollers to men discerning religious life to a Columbia University professor.
The making of pilgrimages is a tradition as old as religious civilization itself. A long-established act of piety or discernment even in the pagan world, the pilgrimage became a major expression of Christian devotion in the Middle Ages, although one of the first written accounts of a Christian pilgrimage dates from the fourth century A.D.
As the renewal of our Church continues, the Dominican friars hope to continue this tradition of regional pilgrimages to foster the devotion of the People of God and increase the visibility of the Church in our local communities.
-Br. Raphael Forbing, O.P.
On July 9th, the Memorial of St. John of Gorcum, about 30 men and women made an eight-mile pilgrimage through the streets of Manhattan, singing and praying along the way. This pilgrimage is part of a growing tradition in the Province of St. Joseph. Organized and implemented by the Dominican student brothers, these pilgrimages seek to foster devotion and fraternal charity amongst the pilgrims and to provide public witness to the faith.
The Manhattan pilgrimage included seven churches: beginning at the Church of Notre Dame near Columbia University, the pilgrimage proceeded to Saint Jean Baptiste, St. Vincent Ferrer, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Church of Our Savior, and ended at St. Joseph's Church in Greenwich Village for holy Mass and a cookout. The pilgrims prayed the Liturgy of the Hours throughout the day, and received special blessings from the pastors and priests of the parishes. The route chosen took the pilgrims through Central Park, where Cleopatra's Needle provided shade during one of the liturgical hours of the Divine Office.
The pilgrims formed a diverse cross-section of the Church. Six Dominican friars and two Franciscan Friars of the Renewal took part, along with twenty-some lay pilgrims ranging from families pushing strollers to men discerning religious life to a Columbia University professor.
The making of pilgrimages is a tradition as old as religious civilization itself. A long-established act of piety or discernment even in the pagan world, the pilgrimage became a major expression of Christian devotion in the Middle Ages, although one of the first written accounts of a Christian pilgrimage dates from the fourth century A.D.
As the renewal of our Church continues, the Dominican friars hope to continue this tradition of regional pilgrimages to foster the devotion of the People of God and increase the visibility of the Church in our local communities.
-Br. Raphael Forbing, O.P.
Dominican Daily
Cloth Bound
A Biographical Essay on Fr. Benedict Ashley, O.P.
Posted by Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, O.P. on July 11, 2011
Photograph by Chris Kirzeder
Recently, The Core (the publication of the alumni office of the University of Chicago) published a biographical essay on Fr. Benedict Ashley, O.P., a 1937 graduate of the University of Chicago. Fr. Ashley is a world-renowned philosopher and a member of the Province of St. Albert the Great (Central Province). Reprinted below, with the permission… » More
Photograph by Chris Kirzeder
Recently, The Core (the publication of the alumni office of the University of Chicago) published a biographical essay on Fr. Benedict Ashley, O.P., a 1937 graduate of the University of Chicago. Fr. Ashley is a world-renowned philosopher and a member of the Province of St. Albert the Great (Central Province). Reprinted below, with the permission… » More
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Larkin’s Heavenly Body
Reflections on Philip Larkin and the Feast of Corpus Christi
Posted by Br. Innocent Smith, O.P. on June 28, 2011
Br. Gabriel Torretta, O.P., a Dominican student brother who is a summer fellow at First Things, has published an article reflecting on the feast of Corpus Christi and the poet Philip Larkin, who has been described as an "Angelican atheist." Read an excerpt below:
"Corpus Christi is the liturgical feast for poetry. The audacious claim that bread and wine become body and blood for the life of the world needs the poet's dense art to reveal the mystery without pretending to strip it bare. It is no coincidence that one of the Church's greatest Eucharistic theologians, Thomas Aquinas, also wrote some of Christianity's finest hymns when the feast was instituted in 1264.
Philip Larkin doesn't enter many lists of Eucharistic poets, perhaps because the morose, godless librarian philandered ruthlessly, mocked his lovers, and never let religion ruin an evening. Yet Larkin's poetry often probed cracks in life's smooth surface, places of doubt that might yawn into black despair or pour out radiant hope. He yearned for meaning, and in his poetic searches he occasionally placed his hand directly on the Christian mystery, even if he then withdrew it like a child from a stove."
Br. Gabriel Torretta, O.P., a Dominican student brother who is a summer fellow at First Things, has published an article reflecting on the feast of Corpus Christi and the poet Philip Larkin, who has been described as an "Angelican atheist." Read an excerpt below:
"Corpus Christi is the liturgical feast for poetry. The audacious claim that bread and wine become body and blood for the life of the world needs the poet's dense art to reveal the mystery without pretending to strip it bare. It is no coincidence that one of the Church's greatest Eucharistic theologians, Thomas Aquinas, also wrote some of Christianity's finest hymns when the feast was instituted in 1264.
Philip Larkin doesn't enter many lists of Eucharistic poets, perhaps because the morose, godless librarian philandered ruthlessly, mocked his lovers, and never let religion ruin an evening. Yet Larkin's poetry often probed cracks in life's smooth surface, places of doubt that might yawn into black despair or pour out radiant hope. He yearned for meaning, and in his poetic searches he occasionally placed his hand directly on the Christian mystery, even if he then withdrew it like a child from a stove."
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Fr. Paul Arinze serves as a Tennis Umpire
All the Friar Bloggers
Homily for Simple Profession 2011
By The Dominican Friars on August 16, 2011
For more photos of our friars, please check out the Blog of the Director of Vocations.
On August 15, 2011, the Solemnity of the Assumption, Fr. John… » More
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Sirius XM Radio, September 30, 2011
By Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P. on October 01, 2011
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In this episode of Word to Life, Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P. and Fr. Bruno Shah discuss the readings for the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time and are… » MoreMore Word to Life »
Medical Meet and Greet
By Fr. Jordan Kelly, O.P. on July 15, 2011
The Dominican Friars Healthcare Ministry of New York is hosting a gathering of medical students, residents and medical professionals at the Church of… » More
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New Issue of The Trumpet
By Fr. Dominic Izzo, O.P. on June 03, 2011
Download the latest issue of The Trumpet. In this issue, there is an interview of Br. Ignatius Perkins, O.P., a reflection by Fr. Joseph J. Guido, O.P.,… » More
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Twenty-Eighth Sunday of the Year (Year A)
By The Dominican Friars on October 05, 2011
Each week, a Dominican member of the Provincial Preaching Advisory board prepares this Preacher's Sketchbook in anticipation of the upcoming Sunday Mass. … » More
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