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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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Pope Benedict Begins Lent
Receives Ashes at Santa Sabina
Posted by Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P. on February 17, 2010
According to ancient tradition, the Pope travels on Ash Wednesday across Rome to the Aventine Hill, to observe the beginning of Lent in the Dominican Basilica of Santa Sabina. This explains why you see so many Dominican Friars in the video above, including our own Fr. Benedict Croell, O.P., who is completing graduate studies at the Angelicum University.
This year in his Message for Lent, Pope Benedict XVI took up the theme of justice, saying that he wants the faithful this Lenten season to reflect on what justice really means for human beings. Jesus, who fed crowds of followers and healed the sick while he preached, "surely condemns the indifference that even today forces hundreds of millions into death through lack of food, water and medicine," the pope stated. "The Christian is moved to contribute to creating just societies where all receive what is necessary to live according to the dignity proper to the human person and where justice is enlivened by love," Benedict added.