The Long Island Catholic, the newspaper of the diocese of Rockville Center, recently published a feature article on Bishop Chris Cardone, O.P., a member of the Province of St. Joseph who has served for many years in the Solomon Islands. Read the article, and look at the slideshow of photographs of Bishop Cardone in the Solomon Islands and on a recent visit to Long Island.
[video type="vimeo" clip_id="27064107"] In this last part of a video series Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. discusses Mary Magdalene in the works of Fra Angelico.
[audio mp3="http://blip.tv/file/get/Op-SiriusXMRadioJuly292011268.mp3"] On this episode of Word to Life, Fr. John Coughlin, O.F.M., and Fr. Darren Pierre, O.P., join Br. Innocent Smith, O.P., in studio to discuss the readings for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
What is the soul? If it does exist, where is it? Do animals have souls? In this video, Br. Clement Dickie, O.P. explores the Catholic understanding of the nature of the soul. Rooted in the thinking of St. Thomas Aquinas, this talk attempts to answer much of the modern misunderstanding about the nature of the soul as the principle of life. This lecture is the last in a series of summer lectures held at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Zanesville, OH. This lecture was given on July 26, 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:
Any Catholic parish has permission to re-print these bulletins for distrbution to their parish church, so long as no fee is charged.
In this video you can see Dominican friars at the Manhattan studio of Sirius XM 129 — The Catholic Chanel. “Word to Life” is broadcast on Sirius XM Satellite Radio 129 with Father Gabriel Gillen on Fridays at 12 pm ET and rebroadcast on Saturdays at 2 am ET. The show helps us to understand God’s Word, and how to live it out in our daily lives, with a contemporary and insightful look at our Sunday readings.
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In this video series Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. continues to explain why Mary Magdalene was chosen as a patroness of the Dominican Order.
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In this video series Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. explains why Mary Magdalene was chosen as a patroness of the Dominican Order.
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On this episode of Word to Life, Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P., Fr. Bruno Shah, O.P., and Br. Innocent Smith, O.P., discuss the readings for the 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year A), speaking particularly about Jesus’s three parables about the treasure buried in the field, the pearl of great price, and the net full of fish. They also talk about the feast of St. Mary Magdalene (July 22) and its relation to the Dominican order.
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“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field” (Mt 13:44). Analogously, there is the merchant in search of fine pearls: “When he finds a pearl of great price, he goes and sells all that he has and buys it” (Mt 13:45). This parable instills a great truth in those who are invited: to be worthy of the invitation to the bridegroom’s royal feast it is necessary to show that one understands the supreme value of what is being offered. Hence, there must be a willingness to sacrifice everything for the kingdom of heaven, which is worth more than everything. No earthly good is comparable to it in value. One can abandon everything, without loss, in order to take part in the feast of Christ the bridegroom.”
“In these two parables Jesus shows the supreme value of the Kingdom of heaven, and the attitude people need if they are to attain it. The parables are very alike, but it is interesting to note the differences: the treasure means abundance of gifts; the pearl indicates the beauty of the Kingdom. The treasure is something stumbled upon; the pearl, the result of a lengthy search; but in both instances the finder is filled with joy.”
Are we not perhaps all afraid in some way? If we let Christ enter fully into our lives, if we open ourselves totally to him, are we not afraid that He might take something away from us? Are we not perhaps afraid to give up something significant, something unique, something that makes life so beautiful? Do we not then risk ending up diminished and deprived of our freedom? … No! If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful and great. No! Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed. Only in this friendship do we experience beauty and liberation. And so, today, with great strength and great conviction, on the basis of long personal experience of life, I say to you, dear young people: Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and he gives you everything. When we give ourselves to him, we receive a hundredfold in return. Yes, open, open wide the doors to Christ-and you will find true life.”
“In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God: for the Word of the Lord shines with the brightness of truth, and is solid with the firmness of eternity, and is every where alike with the beauty of Divinity: when the shell of the flesh is pierced through, God may be perceived.’ ”
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