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A sermon preached by Br. Hugh Vincent Dyer, OP, for the Vigil of the Solemnity of All Saints in our House chapel on October 31, 2005.
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The All Saints vigil is written up in an article by Nick Manetto.
PLEASE NOTE: The article erroneously states that the Dominican House of Studies is the “order’s U.S. seminary.” In fact, the other provinces also have their own studia, and the Vigil of All Saints originated at the Western Province’s Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology.
Father Gabriel Gillen and Br. Dominic Legge directed the annual Catholic University Graduate and Law Students retreat from Oct. 6-7, 2006, “I call you friends,” on the themes of friendship, study, and happiness.
September 29, 2005
Feast day of Sts. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels
Fr. John Langlois, O.P., gave a lecture on the history and spirituality of the Holy Rosary on Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 7:00 pm at the Dominican House of Studies. The Origins of the Rosary and Why We Should Pray It.
An Apology for the Mendicant Orders, by St. Thomas Aquinas: Part 1
It now remains for us to show that it is expedient for the salvation of souls, that others, besides parish priests, should preach and hear confessions. Our first proof is taken from the words of our Lord, “The harvest indeed is great” — or as the Gloss explains, “There is a vast multitude capable of receiving the word and bearing fruit” — “but the laborers are few,” i.e. (according to the Gloss), “the preachers who shall gather together the church of the elect.”
The BBC has posted an audio file of a brief (3 min) talk given by an English Dominican who explains a bit of the life of St. Dominic and the charism of the Order of Preachers.
The Blessing of the site for the new academic center of the Dominican
House of Studies was on Oct. 5th 2006.
On Saturday September 30, 2006, newly professed Father Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P., (above) preached a homily at the conventual Mass of the Dominican House of Studies for the Feast of St. Jerome. Fr. Guilbeau’s homily is presented here in its entirety.
Devotion to Saints Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, and Gregory as the four Latin Doctors of the Church first arose in the eighth century. The original number of four was chosen, it is said, to match the number of the evangelists. Pope Boniface VIII gave official recognition to this devotion in the late thirteenth century, and later in the sixteenth, after the liturgical feasts of the four doctors were mandated by Pope St. Pius V, it took little time for their images to become a standard feature in the artwork decorating, among other things, seminary chapels. Our own mural behind me is evidence enough of the popularity and endurance of this tradition.
