The following comes from a November 3 Catholic San Francisco article by Valerie Schmalz:
From November 7, 2015, to January 21, 2017, Dominicans worldwide celebrate the 800th jubilee of the approval of the Order of Preachers by Pope Honorius III in 1216.
On October 31 in San Francisco, where the Dominicans have been a significant presence since the Gold Rush, the order founded by St. Dominic de Guzman celebrated a little bit earlier with a Celebration of Jubilee 800 – a Mass at St. Dominic Church celebrated by the Master of the Order Dominican Father Bruno Cadoré.
“Let us be sent by the Holy Spirit,” Father Cadoré told the approximately 900 religious, parishioners and friends of the Dominicans, emphasizing founder St. Dominic de Guzman’s “call to let Christ preach in us.”
Father Cadoré is based in Rome but was able to time his West Coast visitation to celebrate the Mass, said Dominican Father Michael Hurley, pastor of St. Dominic Church in San Francisco.
In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the Dominican friars own and operate St. Dominic Parish, which includes the novitiate for the Western Province of the Dominicans. In 2013, Dominicans signed an agreement with the archdiocese to operate St. Raymond Parish in Menlo Park.
The Dominican Friars of the Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, which was established during the Gold Rush in 1850, encompass Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and California. There are five communities of Dominican women religious active in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
What is amazing to me is how overlooked St. Dominic is in his home country! On a trip a long time ago to Bologna, we went to the Church to venerate his body. There was nobody there! A brother priest saw us looking around and praying and gave us a fantastic behind-the-scenes tour of the Church and priory. Too bad Italians (and tourists) don’t get how important Dominic is and was. He was a true reformer, understanding that the urbanization of Europe, rapidly taking place after the dark ages, meant that new kinds of ministries were needed, new kinds of education and preaching. A true visionary! We need more like him today!
Well said, re. St. Dominic. It is amazing how little known his work is today in some quarters.
Also, today (Nov. 3rd, both trad and New calendars) is a fellow Dominican “New World” patron saint, St Martin de Porres, patron of orphans (he founded an orphanage), veterinarians, ill pets (he was a self-taught but quite good vet himself, according to the testimony process), and of racial harmony & peace.
‘Your Fellow Catholic ‘, AMEN!!
Dominicans of the Western province run a parish in Anchorage, Alaska. A couple of years ago they concentrated there three of their few priests tha offered publicly the Dominican Latin Mass. They could have had a Solemn Mass every Sunday. I mention this here to illustrate how vengeful the Vatican II Catholic Church has long been for traditional Catholicism.
Gratias, check the Sunday Bulletin for the cathedral and you will find a weekly Sunday Mass in Latin; the Dominican Rite, one of many rites in the Roman Catholic Church. There is no vengeance in the Vatican II church. We are one church!!!!! And, yes, we have many Rites. When any of us make comments about a parish, we should go to their web site first and check out our assumptions, wouldn’t you agree?
I have mixed feelings about this order. While in Seattle years ago at Blessed Sacrament parish I joined with the Dominicans in their simple Vespers; afterwards at Mass the friar preached on the rich man and Lazarus. He went out of his way to water down the stark contrast between the rich man in hell and Lazarus in Abraham’s bosom. One might have justly concluded he did not believe in hell, or did not believe it something to worry about.
Dan, one sermon taints you feelings about an international order of preachers? Really?
Ridiculous to dismiss the Dominican Order because of one preacher’s words.
You remind me of the film “Agnes of God” in which Jane Fonda tells the Mother Superior she left the Catholic Church because some nun was “mean” to her once in class.
“You threw away your Catholic faith because some woman was having a bad day? Are you crazy?” the Mother Superior said, or words to that effect. I’ll never forget the scene, because it reminds me of far too many “Catholics” who grab onto lame excuses in this way…
Anonymous, as to your 9:04 p.m. post, please learn to read carefully the words of others. How tedious to see one’s words twisted from their original meaning,and how tiresome to read such thoughtless replies.
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When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power of mine? Of course not. St. Paul says, ‘What have you that you have not received and you who have received, why do you glory as if you had not?’ But the secret of my power is that I have never in fifty-five years missed spending an hour in the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. That’s where the power comes from. That’s where sermons are born. That’s where every good thought is conceived.
Fulton J. Sheen