Happy Thanksgiving Sisters and Brothers of our Dominican Family & Friends!
Happy Thanksgiving Sisters and Brothers of our Dominican Family & Friends!
The source of all of our talents as individuals and as communities to plant, to nurture and to harvest is God. Jesus Himself showed us how to give thanks by His words and works, also affirming the faith of a leper made clean when the cleansed one returned to give thanks (Luke 17:15-19). I give thanks for each one of you and for the efforts you make to nourish one another and the people of God. I give thanks for what Anthony Hung Tran offers each Sunday at Holy Rosary Church in preaching and caring for the Vietnamese parishioners in celebrating the Sacraments and in his counseling. I give thanks for Val's persevering spirit and for all those of his Dominican family and friends who surrounded him every day, caring for him during his illness. I give thanks for all of our student friars preachers who are either working on their ratio or in the midst of doctorates, for their example of the pillar of study. I give thanks for our new Master of the Order, fr Bruno Cadoré, O.P., and his predecesors, friars Carlos and Timothy, and for fr Ed Ruane, Socius. I give thanks for our benefactors and all they have done and are doing to help us to preach and care for souls. I give thanks for all the hidden good you do when the newsreels are not running.
The source of all of our talents as individuals and as communities to plant, to nurture and to harvest is God. Jesus Himself showed us how to give thanks by His words and works, also affirming the faith of a leper made clean when the cleansed one returned to give thanks (Luke 17:15-19). I give thanks for each one of you and for the efforts you make to nourish one another and the people of God. I give thanks for what Anthony Hung Tran offers each Sunday at Holy Rosary Church in preaching and caring for the Vietnamese parishioners in celebrating the Sacraments and in his counseling. I give thanks for Val's persevering spirit and for all those of his Dominican family and friends who surrounded him every day, caring for him during his illness. I give thanks for all of our student friars preachers who are either working on their ratio or in the midst of doctorates, for their example of the pillar of study. I give thanks for our new Master of the Order, fr Bruno Cadoré, O.P., and his predecesors, friars Carlos and Timothy, and for fr Ed Ruane, Socius. I give thanks for our benefactors and all they have done and are doing to help us to preach and care for souls. I give thanks for all the hidden good you do when the newsreels are not running.
Our United States of America is in possession of a spirit of gratefulness from its founding in the coming together of native peoples and newcomers from other nations to share and make attempts to become united in common purpose. It is an imperfect gratefulness because our nation has experienced civil war and violence of varied kinds including in our own time. Our society could learn a thing or two from Dominican hospitality. Nonetheless, it is in this new moment of Thanksgiving that we celebrate what unites us and beg for the courage to reconcile and to rebuild what was damaged by division. Let us encourage and give thanks for one another in our houses, in our Province, and in our Order this Thanksgiving Day!
With a heart of thanks for each of you know of my prayers of gratitude. God Bless You All!
Most joyfully yours in Dominic,
Chris, op
With a heart of thanks for each of you know of my prayers of gratitude. God Bless You All!
Most joyfully yours in Dominic,
Chris, op
