Fr. Gabriel Gillen, OP

I planted an acorn last October, and the sprout is now about three inches tall. Every day it grows just a little bit—not in quick, dramatic spurts but in slow, steady motion.

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Today is both May Day and the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker. When Pope Pius XII instituted this feast was he just conceding to the Communists? Is there really such a big difference between the Church’s defense of  the dignity of the worker and Marx’s worker’s paradise?
Are our ideals all that different?

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Over the last 6 years, as I have prepared for the priesthood, I have planted many trees, and cut down more than a few that were dying.
But all these trees that I planted are nothing but dead wood if I lack one thing.

Our chapel has become a workshop. The scaffolds and smells of restoration work fill the nave and sanctuary. The high altar, veiled beneath a plastic sheet, is a patchwork of half-stripped varnish. Yet in the middle of all this, I imagine our Lord feels quite at home—Christ, after all, was a carpenter. 

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If you asked me, “What do you see differently since becoming a religious brother,” you might be surprised to hear, “Flowers.” It may seem odd to connect an appreciation of flowers with religious sentiment, but flowers proclaim in a unique way the greatness of God. Their effortless elegance and subtle intensity show how “not even […]

In April of 2022, a few months before taking the Dominican habit, I walked around the Notre Dame campus with a Dominican friar. A question had been on my mind for some time. “Father,” I said, “I don’t think I understand Easter.”

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There’s something satisfying about sweeping, pithy indictments of all human thought. Take the following claim by Karl Marx, the father of Marxism: “Philosophers have only interpreted the world differently, the point is to transform it.”