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Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, O.P.
Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, OP was raised in Phoenix, AZ where he attended Brophy College Preparatory. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a double major in English and Philosophy. From there, he went to law school at the University of Chicago, where he obtained his Juris Doctor. Upon graduation, he worked for three years in the Corporate and Securities practice of Sidley & Austin, a large international law firm based in Chicago. Upon reflection and discernment, he left the practice of law to enter religious life. He entered the novitiate for the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 2002, where he took the religious name "Pius", after Pope St. Pius V, one of the four Popes who were first Dominicans. As part of his initial formation, Fr. Pius studied for the License in Sacred Theology. His thesis was on St. Thomas Aquinas's account of Knowledge and Love in understanding the persons of the Trinity. Fr. Pius was ordained to the priesthood on May 23, 2008 and served at the parish of St. Thomas Aquinas in Zanesville, OH. In 2010, Fr. Pius was appointed by President Barack Obama to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that promotes equal access to justice and provides grants for high-quality civil legal assistance to low-income Americans. Fr. Pius is currently in studies pursuing a degree in Canon Law at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum).
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Preparing for the New Translation
The Complete Collection of Bulletin Inserts
Posted by Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, O.P. on July 13, 2011
For the past several weeks, we have provided a weekly insert on Preparing for the New Translations. Prepared by Fr. Allen Moran, O.P., these inserts have gone in depth explaining the meaning behind the new translations of the ordinary part of the Mass. Their purpose is to assist all Catholics in obtaining a deeper understanding of the Mass texts, so that they might more fully attain the Second Vatican Council's goal of a fuller and more actual participation in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Below are the links for these various inserts. We will also continue to post on the website the text of these inserts in the weeks to come.
The complete collection of bulletin inserts: Preparing for the New Translation
The weekly bulletin inserts:
- Insert 1: Introduction
- Insert 2: The Greetings
- Insert 3: The Penitential Rite
- Insert 4: The Gloria
- Insert 5: The Liturgy of the Word
- Insert 6: The Liturgy of the Word-Homily and the Nicene Creed (Pt. I)
- Insert 7: The Liturgy of the Word-the Nicene Creed (Pt. II)
- Insert 8: The Liturgy of the Word-the Nicene Creed (Pt. III)
- Insert 9: The Liturgy of the Word-the Apostles' Creed and the General Intercessions
- Insert 10: The Liturgy of the Eucharist-the Preparation of the Gifts (Part I)
- Insert 11: The Liturgy of the Eucharist-the Preparation of the Gifts (Part II)
- Insert 12: The Liturgy of the Eucharist-the Preface
- Insert 13: The Liturgy of the Eucharist-Eucharistic Prayer I (Part I)
- Insert 14: The Liturgy of the Eucharist-Eucharistic Prayer I (Part II)
- Insert 15: The Liturgy of the Eucharist-Eucharistic Prayer I (Part III)
- Insert 16: The Liturgy of the Eucharist-Eucharistic Prayer I (Part IV)
- Insert 17: The Liturgy of the Eucharist-Eucharistic Prayer I (Part V):
- Insert 18: The Liturgy of the Eucharist-Eucharistic Prayer I (Part VI)
- Insert 19: The Liturgy of the Eucharist-Eucharistic Prayer I (Part VII) & Communion Rite (Part I)
- Insert 20: The Liturgy of the Eucharist-Communion Rite (Part II)
- Insert 21: The Liturgy of the Eucharist-Communion Rite (Part III)
- Insert 22: The Liturgy of the Eucharist-Communion Rite (Part IV)
- Insert 23: Concluding Rites
Any Catholic parish has permission to re-print these bulletins for distrbution to their parish church, so long as no fee is charged.