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Dominicans Expand to Rockville Centre
The Province of St. Joseph is expanding its ministry footprint into the Diocese of Rockville Centre in June 2024.
Legacy Planning Webinar Recording
Jonathan Gudema, Esq., planned giving attorney and consultant to the Dominican Friars Foundation, led a webinar on the essential steps that everyone needs to consider for their retirement and estate planning. Jonathan reviewed charitable estate giving options that will help you establish your own philanthropic legacy, particularly in regards to advancing the mission of the Dominican Read more…
Letter from the Prior Provincial
We are very thankful for all our benefactors who make our lives possible, and to God who has continued to bless us with the gift of vocations. We pray that through His Grace, these vocations may bear fruit in His Church for many years to come.
Donor Profile | Donald and Jane Danilek
With the goal of forming Dominican college chaplains able to walk with today’s students as they navigate a vastly different world, Don and Jane became generous donors and legacy supporters of the Dominican Friars Foundation.
Watch the Ordination Mass of Fr. Hyacinth Grubb, O.P.
Thank you to all who support the education of men for the Dominican priesthood! Eight friars were recently ordained in three separate Masses. Watch the ordination Mass of Fr. Hyacinth Grubb, O.P., at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer in its entirety below:
A Dominican Microbiologist on a Possible Coronavirus Treatment
By Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P., S.T.D, Ph.D. I was struck by the attempts of these New York Times reporters to dismiss or minimize the impact of the possible use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to treat COVID-19. As a molecular biologist, what is so exciting for me about this claim is that the clinical trial in France Read more…
Protest and Pilgrimage: Report from the March for Life
This year the friars at the Dominican House of Studies and St. Dominic’s Priory and Parish continued our tradition of receiving some of the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who come to Washington, D.C. for the annual March for Life. They came for two reasons: for protest and for pilgrimage.
Province Founds New Dominican Community in Philadelphia
At the invitation of Archbishop Charles Chaput, the Dominican Friars have established a new Dominican house in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The four friars will serve the parish of St. Patrick in Philadelphia’s centrally located Rittenhouse Square neighborhood.
The Holy Countrymen of St. John Paul the Great
To the right of Our Lady of Fatima at the shrine of the Saint John Paul II Society here in New York, an icon with Saint Hyacinth and Blessed Ceslaus adorns the wall. Who are these men, and how do they relate to St. John Paul II?
An Interview with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.
Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., is one of the principal organizers of the Thomistic Institute, which brings accessible presentations of Catholic theology and philosophy to over thirty college campuses.
Saint Vincent Ferrer High School: A Catholic School Deepens its Dominican Roots
Saint Vincent Ferrer High School, a girls’ college preparatory school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, was founded by the Dominican Friars in 1884 and recently took two steps to deepen its Dominican roots.
A New Music Video “Good Christian Men Rejoice!”
Brother Henry Stephan shares with us the following story about the origins of the lyrics for the Christmas Carol “Good Christian Men Rejoice!”: Nearly seven hundred years ago, a Dominican friar named Henry Suso had a vision of angels singing and dancing with joy about the birth of the Infant Jesus. The German preacher and mystic Read more…
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Christ was born to save. This is what caused the angels to sing and dance in Blessed Henry’s vision, and is the true source of Christmas joy. God fulfilled his promise to restore creation to friendship with him through his Chosen People. Once again, God proved faithful to a mistrustful humanity, and confounded their doubts and expectations in the most extraordinary ways. The Lord of Hosts, robed in majesty, became a lowly child, bundled in swaddling clothes. And why? That, as he shares our humanity, we may share in his divinity, by becoming adopted sons and daughters of God.
Christ was born for this. The crib points to the Cross, and to the Resurrection still further. God has truly become man, and it means that we may share in his victory over sin and death. The sacred songs and chants of Christmas recorded by our schola in the resonant acoustic of Washington’s Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land recount this tremendous mystery. “Rejoice, rejoice!” we hear in the carol Gaudete, “with nature marveling, the world has been renewed by Christ who is reigning. The closed gate of Ezekiel is passed through.” Likewise, in the beloved Marian hymn Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming, we praise the “True man, yet very God, from sin and death he saves us, and lightens every load.” The heavenly choirs announce in Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, that Christ was “Born that man no more may die, born to raise the sons of earth, born to give them second birth!”
Christ was born to save. And so we cannot help but rejoice at “the dawn of redeeming grace,” (Silent Night), as we beseech this Child, “Born to die upon the Tree…to assoil [absolve] and save us all,” (Blessed Be That Maid Mary). “Be near me, Lord Jesus,” we pray in Away in a Manger, “And fit us for heaven, to live with thee there.” For “Though an infant now we view him, he shall fill his Father’s throne, gather all the nations to him; every knee shall then bow down,” (Angels from the Realms of Glory).
Christ was born for this: that we should trust once more in God’s faithfulness, and “gain his everlasting hall.” This Christmas, may God lead us all to “rejoice with heart and soul and voice” in so great a Savior.
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