Chapter Meeting; January 15, 2012

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Novice Meeting: 10:00 am
Mass at 11:15
Lunch at 12:00 (Bring a dish if you can)
Presentation by Fr Izzo at 1:30 PM
Midday prayers at 2:30
Confessions 2:30 to 3:00
Community at Colonel Brooks Tavern 3:30 to ?
Note: Time are approximate

Presentation
No reading this month. Instead, we will hear an address from Fr. Dominic Izzo, O.P., Director of the Dominican Foundation and Vicar Provincial for Advancement for the Province of St. Joseph. Fr. Izzo will speak about a new priory the province is building in Virginia.

Coming Up: The chapter is working on an ongoing formation program for the next one to two years. Being considered is a tour of the Summa supplemented with audio lectures, online forums and small discussion groups. However, all suggestions are being heard. What are some of the study and formation materials you would most  like to see? More Bible Studies? Saint of the month profiles? A survey of devotions and prayer practices? If you have an idea, please send it to me or to all@dominicanwitness.com.

We will have an open meeting on this topic in the very near future. The plan is to meet at the Shrine for noon mass, then discuss your ideas over lunch in the Shrine cafeteria. All are welcome. If you can’t attend, be sure to email us your comments to ensure that your voice will be heard. We will let you know of the exact date as soon as possible.

READING SCHEDULE FOR 1ST PART OF 2012 We do have a reading schedule for February through June. We will study the Catechism of St. Thomas Aquinas (The Aquinas Catechism:  a simple explanation of the Catholic Faith by the Church’s greatest theologian (Sophia Institute Press).

 

Lee Moraglio, the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception bookstore manager, is offering IC chapter members and other Dominican

tertiaries, the same discount they offer priests and other religious. Email Lee at lmoraglio@yahoo.com, give him your name and he will order a copy for you at a 10% discount and no shipping charges. Or call the store at 202.526.1287. Please order sooner than later.

 

Please read the first three chapters by our February meeting.

 

If you prefer, you can read it online at http://www.cin.org/users/james/ebooks/master/aquinas/aindex.htm. You can order the book from Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/review/RIXOQR5NMEXXJ/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#RIXOQR5NMEXXJ.

 

 

Visitors: If you are not a Dominican but wish to visit with us, please send email to inquirers@dominicanwitness.com.

Reminder: Members are expected to contact President Therese Errigo with regrets if you are unable to attend a chapter meeting. Her email is president@dominicanwitness.com.

Novices: If you have not done so already, please send me an email with your contact information at your soonest convenience, as I’ve been elected the new Formation Director.

Novices and Postulants, be sure to contact the Novice Master or Inquiry Director if you cannot make your class.

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Apologetics

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To the Editor:

You believe that only non-Catholic-supported Hospitals should give
life-saving emergency abortions to women .

First, you are assuming that there are such Hospitals nearby.  Do you
believe that the ambulance  taking a woman who is in critical condition,
like that 27 year old Phoenix, Arizona, woman who would have died had she
not obtained an abortion right away, would waste  precious time  risking
her life by driving further away to such a hospital? Does it not make sense
that with 15% of Hospitals in the country being Catholic-supported, there
may not have been such a hospital in that area or at least not within
  reasonable distance?

Again, you are giving more importance to a religious  dogma than to saving
women’s lives.  St. Joseph’s Hospital  realized that saving women’s lives
is  more important than adhering to a religious dogma and watching them die
along with their  fetuses. If St. Joseph’s and other Catholic-supported
Hospitals were to refuse this life-saving procedure to women and told  them
to go to a non-Catholic Hospital further away and the women died before
reaching it,  would that not constitute murder?

Health Care is gender specific. This means that women need the health care
that is required by the fact that they unlike men, are born with
reproductive organs. Women’s lives are very much affected by those
especially when they become pregnant. That is why abortions are part and
parcel of women’s Health Care and denying them that  is discriminating
against them while denying them their gender specific Health Care. Making
contraceptives illegal and unavailable and then  banning abortions, forces
women to become pregnant and carry to term against their will or welbeing.
That boils down to government control and intrusiveness in a Democratic
country where all people are supposed to  have constitutional rights.The
unborn are not the only ones that have personhood, feel pain and need to be
protected. Women and girls are the most physically and mentally abused
beings on earth in developing countries. Depriving women of their gender
specific Health Care is cruel. What is our excuse for doing that to our
women? Let us give them the priority that in the eyes of pro-lifers they
have lost by being born.  Women should not be turned into the victims of
their gender.

Sincerely, Liliane Stern

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Chapter Meeting, Sunday December 18, 2011

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Reading
THE LIBELLUS OF JORDAN OF SAXONY (Word Document) (Continued from last month)

Mass 11:15 am

Lunch Social: 12:00 PM

Business and discussion about 1:00  PM

Council elections: We will elect at least two council members. Details will be provided at meeting.

The link at the beginning of this post leads to the document. It can also be found at our document library at http://www.dominicanwitness.com/?page_id=550 or online at http://www.domcentral.org/trad/domdocs/0001.htm.

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THE LIBELLUS OF JORDAN OF SAXONY

Of all the source materials concerning the life of St.
Dominic and the origins of the Dominican Order, Jordan of Saxony’s  work
is not only the earliest, but is also the most authentic. It has, therefore,
influenced all subsequent works on the Order. Happily, Blessed Jordan’s
authorship is beyond question. Probably
it was written by Jordan as an encyclical letter to the entire Order soon after
the canonization of the Founder (July 3, 1234).  The Libellus, then, is
not strictly a life of St. Dominic, but also about the beginning of the
Dominican Order.
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Visitors: If you are not a Dominican but wish to visit with us, please send email to inquirers@dominicanwitness.com.

Reminder: Members are expected to contact Prior Jean-Francois Orsini with regrets if you are unable to attend a chapter meeting. His email is prior@dominicanwitness.com. Novices and Postulants,  be sure to contact the Novice Master or Inquiry Director if you cannot make your class.

 

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Inquirer’s Meeting Sunday, December 18, 2011

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Postulant Module on Study

This Sunday, Sunday, December 18, the fourth Sunday of Advent, we will meet again at 10 a.m. at the Dominican House of Studies for the inquirers’ class.

Our discussion this month will be on  “Study”, which is an essential aspect of our chapter and Dominican  life.

After the 10 a.m. inquirers’ meeting, we will attend the 11:15 a.m. Mass with the Dominican friars. Then there will be a pot-luck lunch (bring something to share if you wish).

Shortly before 1 p.m, we will assemble for a short business meeting followed by elections to our Council. As the elections  are proceeding, we will continue with our last month’s discussion on the Life of St. Dominic.

After the chapter meeting, we will go to the  chapel to chant Midday Prayer. Our chaplain, Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P., will be available for Confessions after the chanting of the office.

Some members head over to Col. Brooks Tavern after the meeting for further discussion and fellowship. All are invited to join.

Please let me know if you will be attending. Looking forward to seeing you!

Yours in the Infant Jesus,

Fran Griffin
Director of Postulants

 

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Dominican All Souls Mass

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Latin Requiem Mass

sung entirely in Dominican and Roman Chant

including polyphonic settings for the

Missa Pro Defunctis (1583) by Tomás Luis de Victoria

performed by the

Washington Cappella Antiqva

Patrick Jacobson, Director

The Reverend James Moore, O.P., Celebrant

Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.

Dominican House of Studies

487 Michigan Avenue, Northeast, Washington, DC 20017

Free parking

Offered by the Immaculate Conception Chapter, Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic

for its deceased members on this, the traditional “Dominican All Souls Day.”

www.dominicanwitness.com

Space is limited. Please reply to Miss Fran Griffin, O.P.

top@sobran.com or 202-643-1048

Latin Requiem Mass Flyer

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Dominican Inquirer meeting on Sunday, October 16

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Inquirer Module 3 – Prayer

On Sunday, October 16, we will meet again at 10 a.m. at the Dominican House of
Studies for the inquirers’ class. Attached is the three-page module that we
will be discussing on Prayer. Let me know if you can come.

After the inquirers’ meeting, we will attend the 11:15 a.m. Mass with the friars.
Then there will be a pot-luck lunch (bring a non-dessert to share, if you can,
or juice).

Shortly before 1 p.m, we will assemble for a short business meeting and short
discussion of members’ apostolates while the candidates are in the chapel for a
short rehearsal of the ceremonies. The seven candidates for reception and
profession will be rehearsing at this time in the chapel.

The ceremonies are very beautiful. First will be the ceremony of reception. Amy
Stickland will be received as a novice. Then we will have the Ceremony of
Profession. We have one making a 3-year temporary profession and five making
perpetual profession. Jean-Francois Orsini, our prior, and Fr. John Baptist Ku,
O.P., our chaplain, will conduct the ceremonies, which will start right after
we finish chanting Midday Prayer.

When the ceremonies are finished, the candidates will inscribe their names in the
big book which includes all ceremonies held over the past 30 years in our
chapter.

Afterwards, return to St. Joseph’s Hall for the cutting of the black and white cake to
celebrate our new members.

Looking forward to seeing you on this very special day.

Yours in Our Lady of the Rosary,

Fran

P.S. We have moved the inquirers’ class to St. Joseph’s Hall.

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Contemplation

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We find people who like the taste of God in one way but not
in another, and they want to have God only in one way of contemplation, not in
another. I raise no objection, but they are quite wrong. If you want to take God
properly, you should take Him equally in all things, in hardship as in comfort,
in weeping as in joy, it should be all the same to you.

~Meister Eckhart

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Dominican Chapter Meeting Sunday, September 18

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We look forward to seeing you this Sunday.

  • Mass 11:15 am
  • Lunch Social: 12:00 PM
  • Business and discussion about 1:00  PM
  • Discussion: Matthew Chapter 10. Please read and be
    prepared to discuss how it is relevant to us as Dominican or how you see this
    scripture at work in your life. You may wish to supplment your reading with Aquinas’ CATENA AUREA on Matthew Chapter 10, which has commentary from the Church fathers. See it online at:http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea-Matthew10.php

Business Topic: It has been proposed that we increase the council size from 7 to 9 or more members. We will discuss this for no more than 15 minutes. This motion would require approval by chapter professed members. Details at meeting.

Reminders:

Members are expected to contact Prior Jean-Francois Orsini with regrets if you are unable to attend chapter meetings. His email is Jorsini1@earthlink.net.

Novices, be sure to contact the Novice master if you cannot make your class.

If you can, please bring a dish to share at the buffet.

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Inquiry Class at the Dominican House, Sunday, September 18, 10 a.m.

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Laity and the 4 Pillars Module

This Sunday, we will meet again at 10 a.m. at the Dominican House of Studies for the
inquirers’ class. Attached is the three-page module that we will be discussing
on the laity in the church and the four pillars of the Dominican Order.

After the inquirers’ meeting, we will attend the 11:15 a.m. Mass with the friars.
Then there will be a pot-luck lunch (bring a non-dessert to share, if you can,
or juice).

Shortly before 1 p.m, we will assemble for a business meeting to be followed by a
discussion, led by Steve Graves, on Matthew Chapter 10, which fits beautifully
into our morning discussion as it is the call to ministry of the Apostles.

If you have time, you may want to peruse Aquinas’ CATENA AUREA on Matthew Chapter 10, which has commentary from the Church fathers. See it online at:

http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea-Matthew10.php

After the chapter meeting, we will go to the chapel to chant Midday Prayer. Our
chaplain, Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P., will be available for Confessions after
that.

If you haven’t already told me, let me know if you can come or not.

Yours in Our Lady of Sorrows,

Fran

P.S.

We have moved the inquirers’ class to St. Joseph’s Hall (where we have the
chapter meeting after Mass). The receptionist can direct you there.

 

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Study

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“The purpose of Dominican formation is to produce people truly adult in faith and so able to hear, celebrate and proclaim the word of God.”

~ Rule, §11

“Study is not one activity [amongst others] of a Dominican; it should enter into every aspect of our life. It is part of the way that we grow in friendship with God, delight in His creation, and take pleasure in His presence. It is  fundamental to our preaching, challenging us to wrestle with the complexity of human experience in its encounter with the gospel, moving us beyond facile answers that do not take seriously the people to whom we talk. Study belongs to our search for a new and more just world.”

~ fr. Timothy Radcliffe, O.P.

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