Holy Rosary Lay Fraternity of St. Dominic
(Holy Rosary Parish, Portland, Oregon) of the Western Dominican Province
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Happy Feast Day of the Translation of St. Dominic!
Fr. Augustine forwarded this letter to us from Pope Francis to the Order.
It is also the Feast of Our Lady, Mother of the Church!
May God bless you through the intercession of Our Lady and our Holy Father Dominic,
Denise (Lay Provincial Council President)
Congratulations to our newest Life Professed Members, Brenda Allor, Sheila Meyer and Doyen Nguyen. This is a great day, and a culmination of many years of prayer, study and work on their part. Welcome fully in to our Chapter!
We will have a reception, as soon as Covid regulations allow, for the newly received and professed, from last year, today and those next month in June. Stay tuned, and we will keep you posted.
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Fr. Justin Gable, OP and Fr. Michael Hurley, OP are offering an online series of courses entitled, “The Foundations of Virtue”.
Both of these Friars are exceptional in their knowledge and in their faith. Please consider registering for this course. There is a fee, but if you would like to attend and are unable to pay, Fr. Justin will waive the fee for you (see his letter below).
Please send this to all your chapter members, and to any family or friends who may be interested.
God bless you through the intercession of Saints Philip and James,
Denise (Harvey, LPC President)
Dear Friends,
Good morning! I am excited to let you know about a class Fr. Michael Hurley and I will be offering–the first in what we hope will be a series of courses in Ethics and Moral Philosophy–entitled “The Foundations of Virtue.” We will be introducing key concepts and themes for understanding virtue and the ethics of Aristotle and Aquinas through a close reading of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Attached is a flyer advertising the class.
Included in the flyer is a URL for course registration. The cost is $100 (but we are more than glad to waive the fee should this prove a hardship for anyone wishing to take the class). Class sessions are Saturday mornings, 10 AM to noon (Pacific Daylight Time) via Zoom, beginning May 15.
We’d be grateful if you would spread the word (including the URL). For those of you in our Dominican parishes, might it be possible to add this to your parish bulletin? Thank you so much for helping us!
Blessings,
Fr. Justin
Fr. Justin Charles Gable, O.P., Ph.D. Regent of Studies, Western Dominican Province 2390 Bush Street San Francisco, CA 94115
Associate Professor of Philosophy Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology 2301 Vine Street Berkeley, CA 94708
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Happy Feast Day!!!
Many blessings and graces to you through the intercession of St. Catherine!
Below is an email from the Friars with special announcements. In particular, there is a Solemn High Mass in the Dominican Rite, on Saturday, the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker. Please participate via live stream, if you are able.
Also, there is a consecration prayer to St. Joseph. For those who did not consecrate themselves to St. Joseph on March 19, please do so now. It is my request that all lay members of our Province consecrate themselves to St. Joseph, this year. Jesus Himself entrusted His Humanity to St. Joseph. Our Lady also placed Herself under his care. St. Joseph’s guidance and protection was instrumental in the success of Jesus’ preaching ministry and the founding of our Church. It goes without saying, then, that we too need the guidance and protection of St. Joseph for our “preaching” ministry.
May God bless you!
Denise
PS, As always, please forward this email to your chapter members.
PRAYER OF CONSECRATION TO ST. JOSEPH
O Glorious Patriarch and Patron of the Church! O Virgin Spouse of the Virgin Mother of God! O Guardian and Virginal Father of the Word Incarnate! In the presence of Jesus and Mary, I choose you this day to be my father, my guardian, and my protector. O great St. Joseph, whom God has made the Head of the Holy Family, accept me, I beseech you, though utterly unworthy, to be a member of your “Holy House.” Present me to your Immaculate Spouse; ask her also to adopt me as her child. With her, pray that I may constantly think of Jesus, and serve him faithfully to the end of my life. O Terror of Demons, increase in me virtue, protect me from the evil one, and help me not to offend God in any way. O my Spiritual Father, I hereby consecrate myself to you. In faithful imitation of Jesus and Mary, I place myself and all my concerns under your care and protection. To you, after Jesus and Mary, I consecrate my body and soul, with all their faculties, my spiritual growth, my home, and all my affairs and undertakings. Forsake me not, but adopt me as a servant and child of the Holy Family. Watch over me at all times, but especially at the hour of my death. Console and strengthen me with the presence of Jesus and Mary so that, with you, I may praise and adore the Holy Trinity for all eternity. Amen.
  Happy Feast of St. Catherine of Siena! St. Catherine of Siena is a great saint for our time. Born in Italy in 1347, she grew up during a pandemic, worked to bring peace between political factions of the Church, and fought tirelessly to lead souls back to Christ. Pope Pius II canonized St. Catherine in 1461, and Pope Pius XII named her a patron of Italy in 1940. Thirty years later, Pope Paul VI named her a Doctor of the Church, along with Saint Teresa of Ávila, making them the first women to receive this honor. Click here to learn more about St. Catherine of Siena  Feast of St. Joseph the Worker LivestreamSolemn High Mass | May 1, 1:30pm PDT According to the Dominican Rite Join us on the feast of St. Joseph the Worker for a special live-streamed liturgy as we continue our celebrations for the Year of St. Joseph. Celebrant: Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P. Watch on Livestream.com/opwest or YouTube.com/opwest Who is St. Joseph the Worker? St. Joseph’s labor for Mary and Jesus was his cooperation with Redemption, and an act of mercy for every human being. Click here to read the full article and learn more   Mother’s Day Novena Enrollments | May 1-9Join our St. Jude Shrine in honoring all mothers, and mother figures, by enrolling them in the Mother’s Day Novena, running May 1 through May 9th. Enrolled individuals will be added to the list of intentions on the St. Jude Shrine altar in San Francisco, and remembered throughout the novena leading up to Mother’s Day on May 9th. Click here to enroll someone in the Mother’s Day Novena       5877 Birch Court | Oakland, CA 94618 | (510) 658-8722 |
Called to be a Great Saint! EWTN to Air ‘Dominic: Light of the Church’
He was a renowned preacher, a tireless defender of the Faith, and famous for his profound learning, heroic sanctity and apostolic zeal. He founded one of the greatest orders in Church history, and according to pious tradition, the Blessed Mother appeared to him in 1214, instructing him to preach the Rosary, something his order has been instrumental in spreading for centuries.
Find out more when EWTN airs “Dominic: Light of the Church” at 8 p.m. ET, 5 pm Pacific, Saturday, April 24. See the full program schedule in your local time:
Dominic was born to noble parents, Felix de Guzman and Joanna of Aza, in 1170 at Caleruega, Spain. Their saintly example not only affected the young Dominic, but also his brothers. Antonio, the eldest, became a secular priest caring for the poor and ministering to the sick in hospitals. Manes, following in Dominic’s footsteps, would become a friar preacher and was later beatified by Gregory XVI. Dominic’s mother Joanna was beatified by Leo XII in 1828.
Dominic was educated at the University of Palencia. In 1191, Spain was hit by a famine. Dominic gave up many of his possessions to feed the hungry, including precious manuscripts. In 1194, at age 25, Dominic was ordained a priest for the Canons Regular in the canonry of Osma. He would later travel with Diego de Acebo, bishop of Osma and prior of his community to spread the Gospel. In 1207, with Pope Innocent III’s blessing, the two went to preach in the south of France to the Cathars, a heretical sect with gnostic and dualistic beliefs.
After Diego’s death in 1207, Dominic continued to preach with a community and a few of the converts he won from the Cathar sect. In 1215, he moved on to Toulouse, adapting a new rule of life based on The Rule of St. Augustine. By December of 1216, Pope Honorius III approved of the new Order of Preachers, popularly known today as the Dominicans.
St. Dominic went home to the Lord in Bologna on Aug. 6, 1221. Jordan of Saxony, Dominic’s first successor, wrote of him: “Nothing disturbed the even temper of his soul except his quick sympathy with every sort of suffering. And as a man’s face shows whether he is happy or not, it was easy to see from his friendly and joyous countenance that he was at peace inwardly.” In 1234, Pope Gregory IX canonized him.
Let us ask for St. Dominic’s intercession in these trying times that we too will always give a heroic defense and have a strong zeal for our Catholic Faith.
St. Dominic, pray for us!
Presented by Most Rev. Anthony Fisher, O.P., Archbishop of Sydney, Australia
It is widely agreed that trust is eroding, especially trust in major institutions and their leaders. Religious, political, governmental, justice, corporate and media institutions are less trusted today, and trust between individuals is also diminished. This plays out in many negative ways in people’s lives. In this lecture Archbishop Fisher will seek to unpack the “what, why, and how” of trust with the help of St Thomas Aquinas. In particular, he will identify three warrants of trust without which one party will not trust another. He will also examine some of Aquinas’ thinking on leadership, concluding with some thoughts on how best to address the contemporary loss of trust and crisis of leadership.
Tuesday, April 27, 5:30 pm, PT
Please join us and spread the word about the upcoming Annual Aquinas Lecture which will be presented by Most Rev. Anthony Fisher, O.P., Archbishop of Sydney, Australia on Tuesday, April 27th at 5:30pm PT.
REGISTER HERE <https://dspt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I6Us1VzfTH2jjMayXSpBoA>.
The event will also be streamed live and recorded on our YouTube channel<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3idyFQBbRIxcTS1-4zchwg>.
Blessings,
Heidi McKenna
Director of Communications and the College of Fellows, DSPT
[ Archbishop Anthony Fisher, having received degrees in history and law from the University of Sydney, joined the Dominican Order in 1985 and was ordained priest in 1991. He earned a Doctorate in bioethics from Oxford in 1995, and has lectured at many prestigious universities. He currently serves as a Member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Congregation for Oriental Churches, the Council of the Synod of Bishops, and the Pontifical Academy for Life. He has published extensively, including nine books, on ethical, bioethical, legal and theological subjects, with works on immigration, abortion, bioethics, healthcare, and suffering. ]
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| Welcome to the In His Name Newsletter for the first quarter of 2021! |
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| A WORKER’S PRAYER |
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| Come, Holy Spirit, Divine Creator, true source of light and fountain of wisdom! Pour forth your brilliance upon my dense intellect, dissipate the darkness which covers me, that of sin and of ignorance. Grant me a penetrating mind to understand, a retentive memory, method and ease in learning, the lucidity to comprehend, and abundant grace in expressing myself. Guide the beginning of my work, direct its progress, and bring it to successful completion. This I ask through Jesus Christ, true God and true man, living and reigning with You and the Father, forever and ever. Amen. – St. Thomas Aquinas |
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| FROM OUR OFFICERS |
 | A LETTER FROM THE PROMOTER Fr. Augustine Hillander O.P. “St. Joseph is the patron of the Universal Church, families, fathers, expectant mothers (pregnant women), travelers, immigrants, house sellers and buyers, craftsmen, engineers, working people in general, and a happy death. How did one man who says nothing in the Bible and who didn’t know Jesus in His public ministry have so many important jobs?” Learn more about this here |
 | A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Mrs. Denise Harvey O.P. “[…]But, we cannot accomplish profound faithfulness on our own. We need the intercession and guidance of Our Lady and St. Joseph. In this important month, let’s consecrate (or re-consecrate) ourselves to Mary and St. Joseph. With our fiat, let’s entrust our souls to their care.” Learn more about this here |
 | A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Mrs. Helen Nguyen O.P. “God’s plan is perfect and we have been surrendering and resting in that. But would I do this all over again, absolutely. Because through it all – it has made me believe stronger than ever, in the power of prayer, of saintly intercessions, and the important role in which St. Joseph plays in our spiritual lives.” Learn more about this here |
From Brenda:
Dear pro-life friends,
I am forwarding this excellent email from Sarah Livingstone, pro-life leader from St. Michael’s church. We need to take action immediately on this important matter! So many lives could be saved if we act immediately.
Catholics, please consider having Masses offered up for the individual members of this family, and for the late-term abortionist, Dr. Charlie Browne:
From Sarah:
As many of you know, there is a new late-term abortion clinic that has opened downtown at “The 511 Building”, also known as the “Portland Medical Center”. Here is the Strategy List we can up with that we think is most effective to close Lilith Clinic, especially through having its lease pulled which could be in the works:
Strategies for Stopping/Closing New Lilith Clinic Late-Term Abortion Facility:
1. Email & call ‘511 Building’ owners – The Menashe Family – 3 separate emails to Barry Menashe (Father), Jordan Menashe (Son) & Lauren Menashe (Daughter) and ask them to cease the lease with new Lilith Clinic.
[Sample letter below]
We have confirmation from people who have spoken to them on the phone this week that Lilith Clinic is not what they thought it would be and they are not happy about them being tenants in their building. We really need to PRAY for the Menashe’s to end their lease with this late-term abortion facility.
* See Attached Email Letter to the Menashes I wrote and attached flyer – Please personalize your letter/email and attach the flyer which provides more information on why Lilith Clinic would not be a good tenant for the building and its surrounding businesses.
Here are the 3 email addresses to send your email letters to:
Barry Menashe (Father – Founder & Principal)
barry@menasheproperties.com<mailto:barry@menasheproperties.com>
Jordan Menashe (Son – CEO, Principal)
jordan@menasheproperties.com<mailto:jordan@menasheproperties.com>
Lauren Menashe (Daughter – Principal)
lauren@menasheproperties.com<mailto:lauren@menasheproperties.com>
2. Pray & protest in front of Lilith Clinic at 511 Building. As always, please be peaceful and careful and have at least one person with you. We are there to help women and save their preborn babies lives and to let people know that late-term abortions are now being performed there.
3. Let 511 Building tenants & local businesses know of their presence:
Hand out flyers (see attached flyer). Let the tenants and neighboring businesses know that a late-term abortion facility, Lilith Clinic, is in their building or next to their building and that we will be protesting and praying in front of it. (See my attached letter for more talking points on this).
4. Spread the word!
Let everyone you know through social media, person-to-person, etc about downtown Portland’s new late-term abortion clinic. Most Portlanders do NOT want a late-term abortion facility here nor to become a destination spot for late-term abortion as Lilith Clinic is promoting.
PLEASE SEND YOUR EMAILS TO THE MENASHES ASAP! They are on the fence about revoking Lilith Clinic’s lease and they need to hear from us. AND PRAY!
Thank you all for your work for LIFE! Christ, the Victor, is on our side and He will help us protect His most innocent children and support their mothers!
In hope and prayer,
Sarah
[Example email]
Dear (Barry, Jordan or Lauren) Menashe,
Hope this finds you well. My name is Sarah Livingstone and I am a professional fashion designer, mother, doula, proud Portlander and pro-life activist. I lead the downtown St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church’s Pro-Life Group and am involved in 40 Days for Life. I am writing you today because I am very concerned and disappointed in finding out that you are leasing in your 511 Building, #904, to the new late-term abortion facility, Lilith Clinic, which opened for business a few days ago, on Friday, March 19th. I am imploring you to end your lease with this new late-term abortion facility, not only for the sake of your business, reputation and legacy, but also in shaping what Portland stands for and the many babies that will lose their lives at your building and whose mothers lives and hearts will never be the same.
Here are a few points of interest that I think you should know about and consider in leasing your 511 Building to the Lilith Clinic:
Lilith Clinic will be performing late-term abortions up to 22 weeks gestation, 5 and ½ months old for the pre-born baby. Babies this age can live outside the womb with help. These babies are given NO anesthesia before they are brutally killed. It is a 2-3 day procedure and these women will be coming back and forth to your building to complete this barbaric ‘procedure’ as they call it.
The owner of Lilith Clinic is late-term abortionist Charlie Browne. He was Seattle based and is known for late-term abortions and claims to train others how to be abortionists. His late-term abortion facility in Seattle is now named the ‘sister’ clinic to Lilith Clinic and is called All Women’s Care. Abortions are performed up to 26 weeks gestation – that is weeks into the 3rd trimester at 6 and ½ months along for the baby. Late-term abortions are VERY expensive – thousands of dollars. They are not doing this out of the kindness of their hearts for others. This is big business for and very profitable for late-term abortionist Charlie Browne who is now in your 511 Building.
Many obstetricians have publicly come out to say that there is no reason for late-term abortions. A woman can have a cesarean section and deliver the baby whether it is for the life of the mother or fetal demise. Late-term brutal abortions are neither necessary nor humane.
Lilith Clinic’s website repeatedly promote their ‘Concierge Service’ where they will fly a woman in, arrange car travel from the airport directly to their clinic and arrange hotel accommodations for her late-term abortion. This is not even about helping women in our community of Portland as they claim to do. They want Portland to be a mecca and destination spot for late-term abortions while making big money off of them. Their Seattle clinic’s website boasts, “Women from all over the world choose us.” So not only are they trying to fly women in nationally, they are trying to fly women in internationally to have their business of late-term abortions. As I mentioned above, late-term abortions are very expensive and they are very profitable for them. What they are promoting is Portland to become a go-to destination for late-term abortions – all happening in your 511 Building downtown. Do you want this? Does Portland want this? Most of Portlanders would certainly say NO! Even most pro-choice people are against late-term abortions. Please do not allow this to occur in your building and turn our beloved downtown Portland into a late-term abortion destination spot. This will change Portland dramatically. Downtown Portland is still exhausted and damaged from all the civil unrest of this past year and this will only reignite it in front of your 511 Building.
How will the refrigeration and disposal of biomedical waste (aborted baby parts) be handled in your 511 Building? Where will it be stored? Will your tenants and their patrons be using the same elevators that have waste containers of baby parts in them? This does not make for good business or the happiness of your tenants and their patrons in the 511 Building.
Owner and abortionist Charlie Browne states he wants to train students to do abortions at Lilith Clinic. Late-term abortions are already risky as the pre-born baby is so large and it takes 2-3 days to complete. This sounds like a recipe for disaster in safety – having students ‘practice’ and learn on women for late-term abortions. It also sounds like they will be using these vulnerable women who come to them for late-term abortions as guinea pigs for training. Do you want this occurring in your building?
At late-term abortion facility Lovejoy Surgicenter in NW, that closed this past January, they had frequent emergency ambulances come to take women to the ER due to abortions gone wrong. Usually this is from a perforated uterus, where a hole is punctured in the uterus during and abortion and the woman could bleed out and die. She must be rushed to the ER when this happens. Do you and the tenants in your 511 Building want frequent ambulance visits? I would imagine not. It is not good for business and will upset your existing tenants and patrons.
Your 511 Building is about to have a lot of people praying and protesting outside it because pre-born babies are being killed through abortion in Suite 904 at the Lilith Clinic. While the groups I am involved with (St. Michael’s Pro-Life Group & 40 Days for Life) are peaceful, some others are not. We hope to offer women resources to help them choose life, like maternity homes, rent support, free ultrasounds, baby registries, etc. As we all know, downtown Portland has been a hotbed for civil unrest and rioting this past year with protesters and counter-protesters. The location of your 511 Building downtown could attract Antifa groups and other violent counter-protesters. With all this of course comes frequently police activity there and presence. Again, I ask you, do you want this at your building?
Leasing to Lilith Clinic is a reputational risk that I would imagine the Menashe family does not want nor need. You have built a great reputation here in Portland with your thoughtful and well planned development. I have some friends who know your family personally and they cannot believe that you are leasing to a late-term abortion facility and keep telling me it must be a mistake and that they think you will stop leasing to them. I hope and pray for this as well.
Your tenants in 511 Building are going to inevitably be bothered by one or many of the above points I mentioned – whether it’s protesters, biomedical waste (aborted babies) disposal next to them, frequent police and ambulances, etc. Also your neighboring businesses are not going to be too happy about it as well. The new Ritz Carlton Hotel being built right across the street is about to have protesters and people praying on their side of the street as well facing your building. Nearby Jake’s famous restaurant – a Portland and family institution here – will certainly not appreciate the protesters and counter-protesters and police activity, nor that they are now a neighbor to a building where late-term abortions are performed. None of this is good for anyone’s business. But most importantly, people do not want to be right next to a late-term abortion facility. It is very disturbing to most people and they will boycott those businesses.
Are you familiar with what ‘Lilith’ means? Lilith is from the old Hebrew Bible meaning ‘demon’ that claims she was Adam’s first wife who rebelled. Irish poet James Joyce named her the ‘patron of abortion’ as unborn children were to die and be ‘stolen’ in her presence. Is this the kind of tenant and name that you want associated with the Menashe’s and your properties?
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I, along with many in our Portland community, am imploring you to end your lease with Lilith Clinic. Contracts can be broken, especially if you did not know what it all entailed with your tenant’s business. I am hoping this is the case as I have admired Menashe properties in Portland for a long time and how you have thoughtfully considered Portland and its citizens in your development. This seems out of character for the Menashe family that I have come to respect and admire. You can unwind this. You do not need to house a late-term abortion facility for many reasons.
Please see the attached flyer that has been mailed to tenants to 511 Building and handed out to neighboring businesses by the Portland pro-life community. It has some facts and sources you may find interesting and disturbing and not want your building involved with.
Thank you so much for your time and consideration on this. Leasing to the new late-term abortion facility, Lilith Clinic, is going to cause you more problems and grievances than it is worth as well as reputational risk. Most importantly, you have the opportunity in shaping our beloved Portland towards a culture of life and not having it turn into a mecca and destination spot for late-term abortions in your building. Do you want Portland to embody more a culture of life or a culture of death? You have the power to greatly influence this. Many of us Portlanders are hoping and praying you will stand for what is just and lease to tenants who support a culture of life. Please let us know if there is anything we can do in assisting with this.
In thanks and hope,
Sarah Livingstone
From Denise Harvey, President, Lay Provincial Council:
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I hope you’re having a blessed Holy Week and making the most of the last few days of Lent. Please pray for Fr. Augustine who will be having neck surgery tomorrow for a herniated disc. Pray also for his doctors and a quick recovery.
Father prays so much for us and offers Mass frequently for the laity. Please be generous in your prayers.
God bless you! Denise
PS: Please forward this to all your chapter members so they can join us in prayer.
Fr. Augustine is scheduled to give our annual retreat on April 9 to 11. We wish him a speedy recovery so we can see and learn from him then.
[Fr. Augustine Hilander is the Promoter Provincial for the Laity]
Happy St. Patrick’s day.
Here is his Breastplate (prayer + explanations written by a fellow OP) which, in the words of my priest-friend, Fr. Nicoletti, in Rome, is the “standard equipment for every soldier of Christ.”
Via Doyen
