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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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The Lord sends 21 Men to the Harvest
Posted by Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P. on August 08, 2010
The Very Rev. Brian Martin Mulcahy, O.P., and Fr. James Sullivan, O.P., with the twenty one new novices.
Here is a photo of the recent Vestition of the Novices that took place at Saint Gertrude's Priory in Cincinnati.
The official start of the novitiate year begins with the postulants receiving the Dominican habit. During this ancient ceremony, called vestition, the new novice kneels before the prior of the community, who clothes him in all six pieces of our habit. The act of being clothed by another conveys to the brother the message of Jesus: "It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you to go forth and bear much fruit." The novice allows the habit to be placed upon him, and he actively surrenders a year of his life to God. Such is the power of a vocation.