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Saint Dominic is the patron saint of the small town of Vittoriosa in Malta. Since 1876 the town has celebrated with great enthusiasm and passion the feast of Saint Dominic. The Statue of Saint Dominic is carried through the town and then placed back in the piazza.
From the Dominican House of Studies Website:
The Analogy of Being: Invention of the Anti-Christ, or the Wisdom of God?
A Theological Symposium
Date: April 4—6, 2008
Place: The John Paul II Cultural Center, Washington , D.C.
Is there any ‘natural’ knowledge of God available to the human person, apart from Christian revelation, or is all knowledge of God given to human beings uniquely in Christ? Is Christianity irrevocably wed to the classical metaphysical tradition, or can God’s nature and character be rethought in distinctly modern ways, based upon a renewed reading of Scripture? What relationship or likeness, if any, exists between created nature and the grace of God? Does Christian theology presuppose a natural philosophical ‘capacity’ for knowledge of God in the human person?
All of these fundamental theological questions are situated at the heart of the famous 20th century debate between Erich Przywara S.J. and Karl Barth, and were treated in Przywara’s famous work Analogia Entis. These topics were also revisited by Hans Urs von Balthasar in his ecumenical landmark, The Theology of Karl Barth. On the occasion of a forthcoming English translation of Analogia Entis by John Betz and David Bentley Hart, this symposium will invite contemporary theologians indebted to Aquinas, Przywara, Barth and Balthasar to discuss these issues. Is the theological concept of the ‘analogy of being’ in fact an ‘invention of the anti-Christ’ as Karl Barth suggested, or is it a truth about creation revelatory of the wisdom of God?
Featured Speakers:
John Betz
Martin Bieler
Peter Casarella
Michael Hanby
David Bentley Hart
Reinhard Hütter
Bruce McCormack
Bruce Marshall
Richard Schenk O.P.
John Webster
Thomas Joseph White O.P.
Sponsored by:
The Dominican House of Studies
The John Paul II Cultural Center
Eerdmans Press
(Flyer Illustration by fr. Antoninus Niemiec, O.P., after Giusto, Creation of the World; © 2007.)
On Saturday, Setpember 15, 2007, our brothers Hugh Vincent Dyer, O.P., and Thomas Joseph White, O.P., will be ordained to the order of Deacons. The ordination will occur at our Priory of the Immaculate Conception (Dominican House of Studies) in Washington, DC. The Mass of Ordination will begin at 11:00am in the Priory chapel.
The ordaining prelate will be Most Rev. Edwin F. O’Brien, Archbishop-designate of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, formerly Archbishop of the Archdiocese of the Military Services of the United States of America.
Please keep these brothers in your prayers as they prepare for their ordination.
The latest issue of the Dominican Review, the Journal of the Student Brothers of the Eastern Province, is now available. This issue includes a reflection by the editor on the relationship between the theological virtue of hope and the Blessed Sacrament. Also, Br. Ignatius Schweitzer, O.P., writes on “The Holy Name of Jesus and Blessed Henry Suso, O.P.” In an article entitled “Our God is Not Like Other Gods”, Br. Austin Litke, O.P., constasts God’s revelation of himself to Israel and in Christ to the understanding of gods in the ancient pagan religions. Finally, Rev. James Cuddy, O.P., who was just ordained to the priesthood this past May, reflects on the nature of the Holy Eucharist and the feast of Corpus Christi.
The latest issue of the Dominican Review can be read as a .PDF file here.
Br. Jim McCormack, MIC (a Marian seminarian) is no stranger to the Dominicans, currently a student at the Dominican House of Studies, Br. Jim recalls his time at Yale attending Mass at St. Mary’s and his call to the priesthood.
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Video (57 min) of a lecture by Fr. Kurt J. Pritzl, O.P., entitled “Contemplation and Truth when Made in the Image of God: Aristotelian Reflections in Post-Modern Times.” Given at the Dominican House of Studies on April 12, 2007. Fr. Pritzl serves as Dean of the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America.
(3min. video) The Dominican friars in the traditional monastic Holy Week liturgy commemorating the death and burial of the Light of lights, punctuated by the haunting melodies of the Lamentations of Jeremiah as sung on the lips of Jesus Christ weeping over the lost children of Jerusalem.
The Marian Role in the Restoration of the Image of God (Video 49 mins.) by Rev. John Corbett, O.P. Assistant Professor of Moral Theology Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C.
Father John received his doctorate at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, studying with the noted moralist Servais Pinckaers, O.P., and writing a dissertation on the theology of virtue in the thought of St.Thomas Aquinas. Previously he has served on the theology faculties at Providence College in Providence, RI, and the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, OH. Father John is a popular preacher and retreat director.
Follow the March for life (18 mins. 32 sec.) with the Dominican Friars, it was shot on the ground at the March from inside the moving crowd. It includes the personal testimony of many Dominican Friars, Sisters, CFR’s, Renewal Sisters, pastors, campus ministers, college students, and youth.
For example, hear from Br. Dominic Legge, OP about how the
March affects people who work inside the Supreme Court.
Fr. Basil Cole speaks of the importance of Saint Joseph in the spiritual life. (6 approx. mins.)
