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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Wondrous that Tree: The Cross in Poetry

A talk by Br. Sebastian White, O.P.

Posted by Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P. on April 13, 2011

View the talk above by Br. Sebastian White, O.P., entitled Wondrous that Tree: The Cross in Poetry. The holy and penitential season of Lent impels us to dwell upon our own sinfulness and need for redemption, and most importantly, the saving death of Christ on the Cross. Can poetry assist us in our prayer and observance of Lententide? In sooth, it can! By reflecting together on the Cross as it appears in poetry, we can be given a new and wondrous vision of "the wood of the Cross on which hung the Savior of the world." Specifically, we will consider the Anglo-Saxon poetic vision, "the Dream of the Rood," John Donne's "The Cross", and lastly, a few stanzas from the work of T.S. Eliot.

This talk by Br. Sebastian was given as part of the "Passion of Christ" Conferences organized by our brothers at the Dominican House of Studies.

Br. Sebastian White, O.P., John Donne, Lent, Literature, Poetry, T.S. Eliot, The Passion of Christ

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