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At yesterday’s General Audience, Pope Benedict XVI continued his study of Christian history by focusing on the contributions of the Mendicant Orders—the Dominicans and Franciscans—to the renewal of the Church and Christian society in the Middle Ages.  In his address, the Holy Father explained how the espousal of mendicant poverty and itineracy enabled the Friars Minor and the Preaching Friars to become the spiritual leaders par excellence of the medieval city.  No mere relic of the past, however, the mendicant quality of religious life continues to benefit the Church’s life, especially, as Pope Benedict notes, through the Dominican and Franciscan “third orders.”

GENERAL AUDIENCE ADDRESS
January 13, 2010

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

At the beginning of the new year, we look at the history of Christianity, to see how a history develops and how it can be renewed. In it we can see that it is the saints, guided by the light of God, who are the genuine reformers of the life of the Church and of society. Teachers by their word and witnesses with their example, they know how to promote a stable and profound ecclesial renewal, because they themselves are profoundly renewed, they are in contact with the true novelty: the presence of God in the world.

Such a consoling reality — that in every generation saints are born and bear the creativity of renewal — constantly accompanies the history of the Church in the midst of the sorrows and the negative aspects of her journey. We also see come forth, century by century, the forces of reform and of renewal, because the novelty of God is inexorable and always gives new strength to go forward.

This was what happened in the 13th century, with the birth and the extraordinary development of the Mendicant Orders: a model of great renewal in a new historic period. They were called thus because of their characteristic of “begging,” namely, of going to the people humbly for economic support to live the vow of poverty and to carry out their evangelizing mission. Of the Mendicant Orders that arose in that period, the most notable and most important are the Friars Minor and the Preaching Friars, known as Franciscans and Dominicans. They have these names because of their founders, Francis of Assisi and Dominic de Guzmán, respectively. These two great saints had the capacity to wisely read “the signs of the times,” intuiting the challenges that the Church of their time had to face.

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Many Dominican parishes and monasteries still observe the first Sunday of October as “Rosary Sunday,” a feast of the old calendar not carried over into the new.  By maintaining this feast the sons and daughters of St. Dominic continue their centuries-long tradition of promoting devotion to Christ through the daily recitation of the Rosary.  

Six years ago, Pope John Paul II reminded the Church of the privileged place the Rosary enjoys in Western spirituality.  He wrote in Rosarium Virginis Mariae that the Rosary’s uniqueness is rooted in Mary’s singular relationship with Christ. Modeled on the perfect contemplative gaze she maintained on the mysteries of her Son, the Rosary perpetuates Mary’s prayer and enables our participation in it, thus making the Rosary, when prayed well, one of the quickest and surest ways to union with God.  

From paragraph 10 of Rosarium Virginis Mariae:

The contemplation of Christ has an incomparable model in Mary. In a unique way the face of the Son belongs to Mary. It was in her womb that Christ was formed, receiving from her a human resemblance which points to an even greater spiritual closeness. No one has ever devoted himself to the contemplation of the face of Christ as faithfully as Mary. The eyes of her heart already turned to him at the Annunciation, when she conceived him by the power of the Holy Spirit. In the months that followed she began to sense his presence and to picture his features. When at last she gave birth to him in Bethlehem, her eyes were able to gaze tenderly on the face of her Son, as she “wrapped him in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a manger” (Lk2:7).

Thereafter Mary’s gaze, ever filled with adoration and wonder, would never leave him. At times it would be a questioning look, as in the episode of the finding in the Temple: “Son, why have you treated us so?” (Lk 2:48); it would always be a penetrating gaze, one capable of deeply understanding Jesus, even to the point of perceiving his hidden feelings and anticipating his decisions, as at Cana (cf. Jn 2:5). At other times it would be a look of sorrow, especially beneath the Cross, where her vision would still be that of a mother giving birth, for Mary not only shared the passion and death of her Son, she also received the new son given to her in the beloved disciple (cf. Jn 19:26-27). On the morning of Easter hers would be a gaze radiant with the joy of the Resurrection, and finally, on the day of Pentecost, a gaze afire with the outpouring of the Spirit (cf. Acts 1:14).

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On today’s “Word to Life” I discussed this Sunday’s readings with Fr. James Cuddy, OP, and Fr. Sean Connor.  Fr. Cuddy, a Dominican priest at the Church of St. Louis Bertrand in Louisville, KY, focused on how Isaiah’s “Song of the Vineyard” in the First Reading foreshadows Christ’s “Parable of the Wicked Tenants” in the Gospel. God’s tenacious love for his creation, explains Fr. Cuddy, is the key to understanding both readings.

Fr. Connor, pastor of St. Ann’s Church in Neponset, MA, highlighted the unflappable courage of the landlord’s son.  In obedience, he willingly entered the vineyard fully aware of his impending death.  Christ meant the chief priests and elders to see his own predicament in this parable.  It worked.  Centuries later, the parable still strikes to the heart.

Click below for the audio of today’s show.

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Britian’s Catholic Herald recently published a great piece on the resurgence of Dominican life in the English Province.  

From St Thomas Aquinas to Fra Angelico, St Dominic de Guzman to Meister Eckhart, the Dominicans have been a dominant force on the intellectual life of the Church. Marked by a rigorous academic tradition matched with a duty to save souls, to be both apostolic and contemplative, the Order of the Friars Preachers has been around for almost 800 years. But in the period spanning between 1963 and 1984, it looked as though the Dominicans might be among the first casualties of the collapse in religious life that followed the Second Vatican Council. Like many other religious orders, the Dominicans revised their constitutions and began to re-examine their charism. In that period, over 3,000 brethren left the Order, world-wide, and by 1975, over 700 priests were laicized, according to Fr Benedict Ashley, an American Dominican. They were in the midst of a serious identity crisis.

But today, in the English Province, the Order of the Friars Preachers, is witnessing a slow and steady resurgence. Over half the friars are under 40, while most of the older ones are over 60. The English Province has 75 friars at present and a small but constant trickle of energetic novices. Young and enthusiastic or older and experienced, they are all Dominicans. Whatever their differences as men, they see themselves as called to follow St Dominic’s mission to preach and save souls. A running catchphrase in their conversations is “that is typically Dominican” and a strong formation marks that identity. Fr Richard Finn, the Regent of Studies at Blackfriars, Oxford, says: “We are blessed with vocations and their educational backgrounds and interests are important to us. We don’t take them to turn them into a standard Dominican product, but there is a strong Dominican formation and that is a strong intellectual formation. 

“But of course, because truth is one there will be a common core of understanding and an appreciation of the economy of salvation in the Catholic Church.”

Fr Timothy Gardner, a friar based at London’s St Dominic’s Priory, believes that the growth of the last two decades is the result of the order rediscovering its charism. It has returned to the intentions of its founder to be defenders of orthodoxy, through study, prayer and preaching.

One paragraph in particular caught my eye.  It contains sage advice for all of us who want to grow in our devotion to the Word of God.

“As Dominicans we have a passion for truth, but that has got to involve learning that things are often more complicated than we think. And as a kind of fundamental Dominican asceticism which is detachment from that which isn’t wholly true, actually surrendering some of our prejudices, our half-truths – the shorthand we often live by – we have to be prepared to give that up and focus on the truth of what God has revealed and thinking hard about it really.”

Click here for the entire article.  Also visit Godzdogz, the website of the English Dominican student brothers.

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On August 8, the Feast of St. Dominic, the Province’s eleven postulants began their yearlong novitiate.  

During a sacred ceremony held at St. Gertrude’s Priory in Cincinnati, the postulants presented themselves to the prior, who asked them, “What do you seek?”  They responded, “God’s mercy and yours.”  Thereupon, the prior received each postulant into the novitiate by vesting him in the habit of St. Dominic.

Click here for pictures and biographies of the new novices.  Please keep them, by name, in your daily prayers.

Br. Thomas More Garrett

Br. John Devaney

Br. Maximilian Yergeau

Br. Boniface Endorf

Br. Joseph Fussner

Br. Benedict Joseph Freeman

Br. Sebastian White

Br. Gabriel Torretta

Br. Frederick Erdman

Br. Paul Marich

Br. Innocent Smith

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On this Feast of Our Holy Father Dominic, we sing praise to God for our redemption in Christ and for the wondrous pathway to Christ’s kingship and priesthood he has revealed to us through his Preacher of Grace.

With devotion to our illustrious founder we sing today the responsory sung by generations of his sons and daughters–the O spem miram.  This ancient chant recalls the paternal charity St. Dominic promised to show his followers after his death.

O spem miram, quam dedisti mortis hora te flentibus, dum post mortem promisisti te profuturum fratribus! Imple, Pater, quod dixisti nos tuis juvans precibus.

V.  Qui tot signis claruisti in aegrorum corporibus, nobis opem ferens Christi, aegris medere moribus.  Imple, Pater, quod dixisti, nos tuis juvans precibus.

Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto.  Imple, Pater, quod dixisti, nos tuis juvans precibus.

(O wonderful hope, which you gave to those who wept for you at the hour of your death, promising that after your death you would be helpful to your brethren! Fulfill, Father, what you have said, and help us by your prayers.

V.  You shone on the bodies of the sick by so many miracles: bring us the help of Christ to heal our sick souls.  Fulfill, Father, what you have said, and help us by your prayers.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.  Fulfill, Father, what you have said, and help us by your prayers.)

In your prayers today please remember especially our Province’s eleven postulants.  They begin their novitiate today by receiving the habit of St. Dominic and their new names in religion.  Through the intercession of our Holy Father Dominic, may God prosper their religious vocations!

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Tomorrow we celebrate the feast of St. Dominic, our founder, which we will observe with particular solemnity at the 5:30 evening Mass.  We will be joined by Dominicans and Franciscans from around the city.  All are welcome to attend.

Tradition has it that St. Dominic and St. Francis of Assisi met each other in Rome in 1215 while observing the deliberations of the Fourth Lateran Council.  Because the Council Fathers were creating legislation governing new religious orders, the two founders were particularly interested in the outcome.  According to one legend, Dominic and Francis met and fell immediately into mutual esteem for each other’s grace and charism.  As a sign of their friendship in the Lord, they exchanged belts.  Francis took Dominic’s leather belt, characteristic of a preaching canon, while Dominic took Francis’s rope cincture, the symbol of his poverty.  

In honor of the friendship between Dominic and Francis, a noble tradition has developed among their disciples.  Dominicans and Franciscans celebrate the feasts of their founders together.  Franciscans join Dominicans on August 8, and Dominicans join Franciscans on October 4.  At the Mass of St. Dominic, a Franciscan preaches, and at the Mass of St. Francis a Dominican delivers the homily.  In keeping with this ancient tradition, Fr. Dominic Monti, OFM, the Vicar Provincial of the Holy Name Province, will preach at tomorrow’s Mass.

Lord, let the holiness and teaching of St. Dominic come to the aid of your Church. May he help us now with his prayers as he once inspired people by his preaching.

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.  Amen.

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Below you find a video compiled from images and interviews taken at last month’s Ignite Your Torch Youth Conference in Louisville, KY.  Organized by a community of Lay Dominicans in New Hope, KY, the conference brought together priests and religious from all over the country to lead over 250 young people in four days of prayer and study.

During my years as a seminarian and a priest, I’ve participated in many youth conferences and retreats.  By far, this one was the best I’ve seen.

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Dominicans worldwide celebrate today the feast of Blessed Jane of Aza, the mother of St. Dominic.

Her fame was widespread early on in the history of her son’s Order.  From Rodrigo of Serrato’s Chronicle of the Saints:

God, who knows the future and desired to show the Church what the quality and grandeur of this blessed man would be, decided to manifest Dominic’s future by several revelations.  Before conceiving him his mother saw herself in a dream bearing in her womb a young dog; it was holding a burning torch in its mouth and, once it had emerged from her womb, it seemed to set the whole world on fire.  This was the announcement that she would give birth to an eminent preacher who, with his flaming torch of eloquence, would rekindle that fire of charity which was being extinguished in the world.  This proved to be true by subsequent events.  Dominic was able to reprove wickedness admirably, to fight against heresy, and to exhort the faithful with great zeal.

Rodrigo continues by describing Jane’s spiritual life.  He calls her “virtuous, chaste, prudent, full of compassion for the poor and the afflicted.”  He concludes, “Among all the women of the region she was outstanding for her good reputation.”

In celebrating today’s feast, we are reminded of the indispensable role families play in the transmission of the faith from one generation to the next.  As the first school of faith, the family is a privileged place where Christian truth and love are born into human minds and hearts.

Lord our God, you filled Blessed Jane with the spirit of the Gospel.  In that spirit she prepared her sons Dominic and Manes for the apostolic life.  Awaken in us that same gospel spirit.

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.  Amen.

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A priest, Buzz Aldrin, and the members of Black Sabbath (sans Ozzie) walk into a studio . . .

Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, right?  Well, sometimes reality is stranger than fiction.  This very scenario unfolded earlier today at the studio as I arrived for this afternoon’s show.  Walking through the Sirius lobby, you can run into just about anyone.  It’s the new areopagus.  And in the middle of it all is The Catholic Channel.  

On this afternoon’s show Br. Jerome Zeiler, OP, joined me to discuss the readings for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary time: Isaiah 55:1-3; Romans 8:35, 37-39; and Matthew 14:13-21.  We examined the theme of divine providence that emerges from all three readings, and we tried to understand this mystery in light of the evil we sometimes suffer.  Tune in . . . I think we may have given Christopher Hitchens a run for his money.

In the show’s last segment I spoke with Fr. Chad Partain, the pastor of St. Paul the Apostle Church in Mansura, Louisiana.  Fr. Partain gave us an update on his parish’s new shrine to St. Philomena, and he also shared with us some thoughts for this Sunday’s homily.

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Today the Dominican Order celebrates the feast of Blessed Ceslaus of Poland, who knew St. Dominic and entered the Order of Preachers under his direction. Together with his brother, St. Hyacinth, Ceslaus helped to found the Order in Eastern Europe.

From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia:

Born at Kamien in Silesia, Poland (now Prussia), about 1184; died at Breslau about 1242. He was of the noble family of Odrowatz and a relative, probably a brother, of St. Hyacinth. Having studied philosophy at Prague, he pursued his theological and juridical studies at the University of Bologna, after which he returned to Cracow, where he held the office of canon and custodian of the church of Sandomir. About 1218 he accompanied his uncle Ivo, Bishop of Cracow, to Rome. Hearing of the great sanctity of St. Dominic, who had recently raised to life the nephew of Cardinal Orsini, Ceslaus, together with St Hyacinth, sought admission into the Order of Friars Preachers. They received the religious habit from the hands of St. Dominic in the convent of Sabina. Their novitiate completed, St. Dominic sent the two young religious back as missionaries to their own country. Establishing a monastery at Friesach in Austria, they proceeded to Cracow whence Ceslaus was sent by St. Hyacinth to Prague, the metropolis of Bohemia.

Labouring with much fruit throughout the Diocese of Prague, Ceslaus went to Breslau, where he founded a large monastery, and then extended his apostolic labours over a vast territory, embracing Bohemia, Poland, Pomerania, and Saxony. Sometime after the death of St. Hyacinth he was chosen provincial of Poland. Whilst he was superior of the convent of Breslau all Poland was threatened by the Tatars. The city of Breslau being besieged, the people sought the aid of St. Ceslaus, who by his prayers miraculously averted the impending calamity. Four persons are said to have been raised to life by him. Having always been venerated as a saint, his cult was finally confirmed by Clement XI in 1713. His feast is celebrated throughout the Dominican order on 16 July.

Loving God, you gave Blessed Ceslaus a burning zeal for the salvation of souls, and filled him with wondrous grace to preach the gospel.  May we be true to his example, and so be able to spread the faith by our preaching and by the way we live.

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.  Amen.

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We join our Franciscan brothers and sisters today in celebrating the feast of one of their greats, St. Bonaventure.  Tradition calls Bonaventure the Seraphic Doctor, a title that recalls the unusually mystical form of his theological writing. 

Born in Viterbo, just north of Rome, Bonaventure entered the Franciscan Order in his late teens.  Though a member of the Roman Province, he was sent to study at the University of Paris, which at the time was Europe’s premier center for theology.  Bonaventure excelled at his studies, eventually becoming a prominent member of the Paris faculty. 

At the age of 36, Bonaventure was elected minister general of the Franciscans, and for the rest of his life he worked to settle the ongoing disputes that plagued the Friars Minor after their founder’s death.  Bonaventure refused the Archbishopric of York when it was offered to him, but later he was obliged to take the See of Albano, for which he was made a cardinal.  Bonaventure died in 1274 while attending the Council of Lyons.

St. Bonaventure and St. Thomas Aquinas were contemporaries at the University of Paris.  As teachers, they shared opinions on many topics, but they disagreed on one crucial and fundamental point.  Whereas St. Thomas spent himself organizing a system and method of theology built on the metaphysics of Aristotle, St. Bonaventure remained leery of giving so much credence to unaided reason. Following the greater Augustinian tradition, the Franciscan doctor insisted on the necessity of grace to discover truth, even truths of the natural world, at least in discerning their connection to God, from whose eternal truth they flow and become known.  Hence, Bonaventure chastised the ancient Greeks, including Aristotle, for their folly and pride, mocking their confidence in the half-truths they cobbled together without the light of faith.  St. Thomas, on the other hand, confident in the power of unaided reason to glean real truth from the natural world, trusted philosophy to serve as a greater aid to the science of theology than Bonaventure would allow. 

This disagreement, among others, led to no small rivalry among their students and disciples. Legends arose as to which saint was the true master of the other. Even artists entered the fray.  Take, for example, the following image.  In it, St. Bonaventure reveals to an astonished Aquinas the true secret of Christian wisdom.

I’m not sure that St. Thomas needed reminding that Christ Crucified is the true revelation of God’s wisdom and love, but you get the point, at least from the Franciscan point of view.  

The Dominicans, however, were not to be outdone.  While studying in Italy, I saw hanging in a Dominican priory an immense tapestry that depicts St. Thomas sitting at his desk writing the texts for the Corpus Christi liturgy.  In the doorway of Aquinas’s room, Bonaventure is seen peering over Thomas’s shoulder and tearing up his own texts, having realized their inadequacy.   Again, you get the point, this time from the Dominican point of view.

I rather like the following image, which depicts a scene from Dante’s Paradiso.  In it, St. Bonaventure is introducing Dante and Beatrice to St. Thomas and other saints enthroned in glory.  Those familiar with the scene in Canto XII will know that this isn’t exactly what happens in the text.  Nevertheless, the image gives us a clear indication as to which of the two doctors plays second fiddle in the communion of saints.  (Again, from the Dominican point of view.) 

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Today’s Metro Section of The New York Times carried an article on The Catholic Channel, one of just three religious stations broadcast on the Sirius Satellite Radio network. The article details how the communications office of the Archdiocese of New York teamed up with Sirius to expand the Church’s presence in the media. Still in its early stages of development, The Catholic Channel offers a wide range of Catholic content in a form resembling more your edgy drive home show than, say, “Life is Worth Living” by Bishop Sheen.  And that’s exactly the point.  The article quotes Joseph Zwilling, communications director for the Archdiocese, as he explains the concept behind The Catholic Channel:

“If someone who listens to Howard Stern happens to turn to the Catholic Channel one day and doesn’t realize for a couple of minutes that what he’s listening to is the Catholic Channel, well, I’m not going to be upset about that,” Mr. Zwilling said. “We recognize that Catholics are listening to Howard Stern. What we want people to know is that they can talk about all the same things he does, but in a Catholic context.”

At the channel’s inception, the Archdiocese of New York approached the Province of St. Joseph to produce and host a weekly show.  It’s called “Word to Life,” and its purpose is to prepare listeners for Sunday Mass by examining the weekend’s Scripture readings.  After being hosted initially by Fr. Peter John Cameron, OP, and other friars of the Province, I was asked last May to become the show’s producer and host.

“Word to Life” airs live every Friday at 1:00 PM Eastern on The Catholic Channel, Sirius 159.  If you don’t have Sirius radio and are interested in listening to the show, check back here each week for a posting of the show’s audio.

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Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP, discusses the readings for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP, and Fr. Bryce Sibley.

Tune in to “Word to Life” every Friday at 1:00 PM on Sirius 159, The Catholic Channel.

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This week the parish says goodbye to Br. Anthony Giambrone, O.P., a deacon of the Province who has been with us since the beginning of June.  On Friday, he will return to the House of Studies in Washington, where he is pursing advanced degrees in Sacred Scripture.  Please remember Br. Anthony and his studies in your prayers.

During his few short weeks here at St. Vincent’s, Br. Anthony delivered a number of excellent homilies.  Indeed, his weekday and weekend preaching fortified many souls.  Below you’ll find the audio of his Sunday homilies.  As you can hear, Br. Anthony is a skillful preacher who readily shares in the pulpit his deep love for the Word of God.

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Today is the feast of St. John of Cologne, a Dominican martyr of the sixteenth century.  His story is a remarkable one.

By 1572, the Netherlands had fallen culturally and politically into Protestant hands, and Catholics of the country became objects of persecution for Lutherans and Calvinists alike.  As town after town fell to Protestant control, the Catholic clergy of the area were arrested and often tortured.  The goal of this mistreatment was not death, but apostasy.  

In June of 1572, the town of Gorcum (modern Gorinchem, 20 miles west of Rotterdam) fell into the hands of Calvinist pirates, and immediately they arrested nine Franciscan priests.  Later, two Franciscan lay brothers, three secular priests, and an Augustinian canon were also arrested.  Eventually four more priests were added to their number.  These included two Norbertines, another secular priest, and John of Cologne, a Dominican friar working outside of Gorcum.  After hearing of the arrests of the Franciscans, John disguised himself and traveled to Gorcum to console his brother priests with the sacraments.  He was eventually caught and imprisoned with them.

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Over 100 people attended yesterday’s opening of the Year of St. Paul here at St. Vincent Ferrer. Fr. Peter John Cameron, OP, editor-in-chief of Magnificat, began our afternoon program with an excellent lecture entitled “How St. Paul Prayed the Our Father.” For those of you who missed it . . . stay tuned. Fr. Cameron promises that his talk will appear in an upcoming edition of Magnificat.

After the lecture, Dr. Mark Bani, the parish music director and organist, along with Elizabeth Sniffen, one of the parish’s cantors, offered a short concert of sacred music inspired by the Scriptural texts of St. Paul. As always, the music was beautiful and much appreciated.

Fr. Cameron then celebrated and preached the parish’s evening Mass. Click below to hear Fr. Cameron’s homily for the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul.

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At the Noon Mass on Sunday, June 1, the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer celebrated the Golden Jubilee of Br. Damian McCarthy, OP, the parish sacristan. A native of the Bronx, Br. Damian has spent over half of his religious life here at St. Vincent’s. Click below to hear the homily delivered at the Jubilee Mass by Fr. William Holt, OP, prior of the community.

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On May 25, the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of the Lord, the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer hosted Blackfriars Repertory Theater for the debut of Fr. Peter John Cameron’s Via Eucharistiae. Drawn from the Scriptures and styled after the Stations of the Cross, fourteen Eucharistic meditations were delivered with simple drama and music. After the last meditation, the Blessed Sacrament was exposed and processed throughout the church.

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