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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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Click above to hear the homily preached by Fr. Gabriel O'Donnell, O.P., and broadcast on EWTN last Thursday, September 10. The Gospel and homily begins about 3 minutes into the recording.
Fr. O'Donnell entered the Order of Preachers in 1964 and was ordained a priest in 1970. In 1980, he earned degrees in the areas of Liturgical Theology and Spiritual Theology. He has taught at the Dominican House of Studies, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, and the Angelicum in Rome. Currently he is the Academic Dean at the House of Studies. He also serves as the postulator for the causes for sainthood of Father Michael J. McGivney, the founder of the Knights of Columbus, and Rose Hawthorne, founder of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne. With Robin Maas, Fr. O'Donnell is the author of Spiritual Traditions for the Contemporary Church, and he contributed to A Love That Never Ends: A Key to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.