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Invite to Catholic Social Teaching class

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Fr. Justin Gable is inviting you to participate in Part II of his Ethics and Moral Philosophy Series, entitled, “An Introduction to Catholic Social Teaching”. The class will be hosted by Fr. Justin and Fr. Michael Hurley. See email below for details.
One note, the class has a requested fee of $100. If you are unable to pay the full fee, or a portion of it, please let Fr. Justin know. He will gladly waive the fee. If you can pay, please do. This will cover costs associated with the class, and also serve as a donation to the Friars.

Stay well and stay holy.

God bless you!

Denise (Denis Harvey, Lay Provincial Council President)

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Happy Feast of St Dominic from the Province

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Happy Feast Day of St. Dominic! 

Dear Friend of St. Dominic,

Today we joyfully celebrate the feast of our founder, Holy Father Dominic. In the 12th century, St. Dominic gathered a group of men committed to the truth of the Gospel. For 800 years, his followers the Dominicans have preached for the salvation of souls. 

When St. Dominic saw the confusion of his day, he responded with charity and clarity. 

Much like in St. Dominic’s time, today we are surrounded by confusion. We live in a world that no longer knows the Gospel— a world that doesn’t know the joy of the incarnation and the resurrection. 

But like St. Dominic, we are filled with hope!

Following in his footsteps, we continue to preach the truth with charity and clarity. Let us ask Holy Father Dominic for special strength to spread the Gospel in our own age of confusion!

St. Dominic, pray for us! 

In Christ and St. Dominic, 
Dominican Friars

P.S. Will you pray for our Novices? Join the Novice Prayer Pledge today!
VIDEO: St. Dominic’s Legacy!

VIDEO: St. Dominic’s Legacy!

From Denise:

Happy Feast Day!!
Let us give thanks to God for raising up St. Dominic to be a light in the Church and in the world.
As his sons and daughters, may we always keep that light burning.

St. Dominic, pray for us.

Have a blessed day!

Denise

Also, please Join The Novice Prayer Pledge 2021! Vestition is Sept 2, 2021.

St Dominic’s Novena from the Province.

From Denise Harvey, our Lay Provincial Council President, on 7/29/2021:

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the summer!
We are fast approaching the Feast of our Holy Father Dominic. As you know, this feast day marks 800 years since St. Dominic’s entry into Heaven. As his sons and daughters, let’s prepare for this great feast by praying a novena together, as one family. This novena is composed by the Sisters in Nashville. It’s beautiful and reflective:
    https://www.nashvilledominican.org/our-vowed-life/st-dominic/novena-to-st-dominic

Let’s bring our personal intentions to this novena along with the intentions of:  Our Friars/ Brothers/Sisters/Nuns, increase in vocations, all deceased Dominicans, all the holy souls in purgatory, our Church, our Holy Father, our country and it’s leaders, an end to abortion and all laws that offend God, all who are ill, those seeking employment, an end to the pandemic, those who are traveling, an increase in the love of virtue, and a renewed love of Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

This novena begins tomorrow, the 31st, and ends on St. Dominic’s day.  Please forward this to all your chapter members.
Thank you for your participation.
God bless you!

Denise

PS:  Our mini LPC Zoom meeting is also fast approaching! We are meeting on Saturday, August 14 at 9am PST         A Zoom link and an Agenda will be sent out the end of next week.

Denise Messages the Province re: Fr. Tony

From Denise Harvey, Lay Provincial Council President

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Thank you for your prayers for our former president, Fr. Tony Galati, who was ordained on Saturday. Photos of his ordination are attached.
Please continue to keep Fr. Galati, and all our newly ordained priests, in your prayers.

Also, our Fra Angelico Chapter in Modesto is inviting you to a presentation on St. Joseph, by Br. Joseph Murray. Br. Joseph is a former member of their chapter. He then discerned a calling to join the Oratorian Community as a Brother, in Washington, DC.  The presentation is on Saturday, July 10, and is free (flyer attached). Please join them if you can. It’s a blessing to witness the vocations of our members and of our member’s children. May God continue to bless our Church with vocations.

God bless you on this Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul!

Denise

Fr Tony Galati Ordintaion
Fr Tony greeted by Fr Vincent
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Centenary of Corpus Christi Monastery, Menlo Park, California

Dominican Nuns O.P. May 24, 2021

“On the 29th of May 1921, it being the Sunday within the octave of the feast of Corpus Christi, five choir sisters – Mother Mary of the Rosary, Very Reverend Mother Prioress, Mother Mary Emmanuel, Reverend Mother Subprioress, Mother Mary of the Immaculate Heart, Sister Mary Agnes, and Sister Mary of the Visitation – two lay sisters – Sister Mary Rose and Sister Mary Thomas – and Sister Mary Benedict, touriere and natural sister of Sister Mary Rose, set out to found in San Francisco a new monastery with perpetual exposition and adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament…”

Monastery Chronicles – Archives
Corpus Christi Monastery, Menlo Park, California

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May 23rd-Pentecost-Life Professions

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!

Left to right, Fr Mark Francis, OP, Doyen Nguyen, Brenda Allor, Sheila Meyer

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.

Invite to Class at DSPT via Zoom on The Foundations of Virtue

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

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