Blessed Are You Among Women | The Fourth Sunday of Advent

Blessed Are You Among Women | The Fourth Sunday of Advent

  Blessed Are You Among Women | The Fourth Sunday of Advent By Br. Jerome Masters, O.P. As we enter into the final 3-day stretch until Christmas, we hear in today’s gospel all the words that are too familiar from St. Elizabeth. “Blessed are you among women and...
Rejoice! | The Third Sunday of Advent

Rejoice! | The Third Sunday of Advent

  Rejoice! | The Third Sunday of Advent By Br. Jerome Masters, O.P. Rejoice! We have made it halfway through this season of Advent, and now the Church has shifted her focus from the second coming of Christ to the first. We hear in the second reading from St. Paul...
Serving the Powerhouse of the Order of Preachers

Serving the Powerhouse of the Order of Preachers

  Serving the Powerhouse of the Order of Preachers By Br. Jerome Masters, O.P. If you travel about 100 miles northeast of New York City, you might stumble across the Dominican Monastery of Our Lady of Grace in North Guilford, Connecticut. These Dominican nuns...
Prepare The Way | The Second Sunday of Advent

Prepare The Way | The Second Sunday of Advent

  Prepare The Way | The Second Sunday of Advent By Br. Jerome Masters, O.P. On this second Sunday of Advent, we hear in the gospel that St. John the Baptist preached a baptism of repentance in order to fulfill what the prophet Isaiah wrote “A voice of one crying...
Deliver Us | The First Sunday of Advent

Deliver Us | The First Sunday of Advent

  Deliver Us | The First Sunday of Advent By Br. Jerome Masters, O.P. In 1998 Dreamworks Animation came out with a cinematic masterpiece called The Prince of Egypt. This movie depicts the life of Moses and the divine mission God sent him on to free the Israelite...