http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog en frjohn@dominicanvocations.com Copyright 2012 2012-01-12T20:41:37-05:00 http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/father_jeffery_ott_to_preach_at_archdiocese_of_atlanta_mlk_jr_mass/ http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/father_jeffery_ott_to_preach_at_archdiocese_of_atlanta_mlk_jr_mass/#When:20:41:37Z The Atlanta Archdiocesan Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend Celebration will include the 28th annual Mass celebrating the life and legacy of King on Saturday, Jan. 14, and a youth celebration on Sunday, Jan. 15, as well as a new partnership this year—a food drive sponsored by the archdiocesan Office for Black Catholic Ministry (OBCM) together with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Atlanta. The theme of this year’s celebration is “Here I Am, Lord … I Will Hold Your People In My Heart.” The Mass on Saturday, Jan. 14, will be celebrated by Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, at 1 p.m. at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, located at 48 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, SW, Atlanta. The guest homilist for the Mass is the pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Dominican Father Jeffery Ott. Events honoring King will continue on Sunday with a youth celebration at 3 p.m. at St. Peter Claver Regional School, located at 2560 Tilson Road, Decatur. 2012-01-12T20:41:37-05:00 http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/my_first_christmas_with_the_dominicans/ http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/my_first_christmas_with_the_dominicans/#When:23:35:41Z By: Brother Carl Paustian    By: Brother Carl Paustian  One of the greatest blessings that the Church has given to us is the Advent Season in preparation for Christmas. Advent helps us to prepare our hearts so that we can receive Christ with joy. The effects of properly utilizing of this season of preparation made the starkest difference for my first Christmas with the Dominican Order and Christmases past. Rather than busying myself with holiday parties, endless traffic jams and crowded shopping malls, I found myself in quiet prayer that allowed the Lord to open my heart for his Incarnation. This quiet prayerful attitude that the Novitiate supports made all the difference for my first Christmas – I was able to wait with joyful expectation instead of fretting over an endless to-do list. At the same time though, this Christmas was very similar to years past in regards to family traditions. I attended a beautiful Midnight Mass but instead of sitting with my mother and father, I sat with my novice brothers. On Christmas evening, all of the friars at St. Dominic’s in San Francisco and several other guests from the Parish gathered in the priory refectory to share a delicious meal with lively conversation. It was Christmas that really helped me to see the Dominicans as my new family – gathered together to share each other’s company and  express our joy for Christ’s coming. Christmas Day also served as a great time to reflect of my vocation to the Order of Preachers. It was, after all, the first anniversary of when I decided to apply to the Southern Dominicans. I was able to step back with a thankful glance reflect on the many changes and blessings of the past year: receiving the Dominican habit, sharing and growing with my novice brothers, tutoring underprivileged students at a local Catholic middle school, and deepening my interior and prayer life through the Novitiate schedule.  2011-12-30T23:35:41-05:00 http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/the_road_outside/ http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/the_road_outside/#When:20:57:13Z By: Cristobal Torres Iglesias, OP   By: Cristobal Torres Iglesias, OP           As I share my experience of settling into our new Studium priory in St. Louis, I could wax eloquent about the positive impact of our new space on conventual life.  I could rightly say that our chapel, still under construction, already promises to be a charming, elegant location for communal and personal prayer; or that its nineteenth-century architecture, like that of the main house, strikingly contrasts with the contemporary style of our new annex.  I might mention our bright and airy recreation room and dining area with working fireplaces, whose high glass walls provide abundant natural light and a view of the Victorian house next door and the highway outside.              I could also describe my room: mostly cream with a warm ochre accent wall behind my desk; a cozy "L" shape that cradles my desk, bed, and drawing table.  I could express my optimism at having a space properly suited to private prayer and study; a place of rest and refreshment where I can lay down after a long day of school and ministry, seeking intimacy with the God who drew me here.  I would, however, prefer to draw attention to my immediate surroundings as I write: the blue late afternoon light that passes through the window to my left; the cool winter draft that seeps through the glass and keeps me focused.  Beyond the window I hear the calm and wave-like whoosh of highway traffic.  Its continual ebb and flow reminds me why we have moved here, and why anyone moves anywhere.             The highway is a river of motion, countless travelers in vehicles moving endlessly toward destinations we never see.  Our house, located immediately off one of its exits, is one of many such potential destinations; it is, in point of fact, but one of many stops in our lives as Dominicans.  As itinerant mendicants, we will continue to move from community to community and ministry to ministry, even as the people to whom we minister move through stages of life, leaving homes, jobs, and relationships; ever in motion but never knowing where providence will lead them.  This coming and going is part of the poverty we are called to embrace, and we embrace it more intensely every time we let go.  Like Jesus who moved from Galilee to Jerusalem, from Calvary to the empty tomb and beyond; so too we move.              Our itinerancy, like that of Jesus, is a call to consciously embrace a fundamental aspect of the human condition: Our movement through life is itself itinerancy; it is a series of interwoven mournings and rejoicings in which we are continually called to let go of one love to embrace another.  Itinerants are called to mourn with reverence and gratitude those blessings we freely relinquish out of openness to grace.  We are challenged to mourn in such a way that we become more vibrantly joyful.  We imitate Jesus in his own mourning and rejoicing to witness that letting go is not defeat and  impermanence is not futility.  Like the Lord, we are called to seek authentic joy and fullness of life by encountering God on the road outside.   2011-12-26T20:57:13-05:00 http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/christmas_message/ http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/christmas_message/#When:22:40:15Z By: Father Chris Eggleton, O.P.    Christmas Message *     *     *     *     *     *   Angels are hovering all around in the Infancy Narratives bringing messages to those unexpected ones who are invited to bring forth the Light and be witnesses of the Light.  These angels sent from the heavens speak Good News and encourage the shepherds saying:   "Do not be afraid; for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people." Luke 2:10   There are an abundance of reasons to be afraid right now yet, the angels speak to us as does Jesus Christ Himself encouraging us in late December of 2011 not to be hoarders of fear but generous witnesses to the Light in the neighbor with whom we live or who comes to us in a surprise package.  The Divine Child was born for all the people of all times and places.   May each and every one of you and your neighbor experience the presence of the innocent and lowly One, fully divine, fully human, Who delights in sitting, standing, walking or running beside us when fear enters into our hearts.  Together let us rejoice that Christ was born, is being born, and will be born for those who long for the Light.     Merry Christmas to you and all your loved ones!   Blessings of Great Joy!   In the love of Christ, Light of the World, and in loving gratitude for all the ways you have encouraged the Light in you to shine forth,     Fr. Chris Eggleton, O.P. 2011-12-23T22:40:15-05:00 http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/and_the_word_was_made_flesh/ http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/and_the_word_was_made_flesh/#When:03:37:37Z By: Cristóbal Torres Iglesias, OP              I recently saw a postcard with an unusual image of St. Dominic: Surrounded by books and meditatively poised, the mendicant preacher stands erect, his eyes focused downward on a Christ child who stands on the palm of his hand.  The divine infant looks directly at us while displaying an open book with illuminated Latin text from the Gospel of John.  The child points toward the Evangelist's proclamation: Et Verbum caro factum est.  The image is a concentric arrangement of revelatory mediations: Dominic contemplates and offers us the Word made flesh, who in turn shows us the Scriptural Word that proclaims his enfleshment.             Painted by contemporary Florentine artist Sandra Brunetti and titled "San Domenico predicatore del Verbo fatto Carne," the original is on display at the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella.  What I found most striking was Brunetti's grasp of the incarnational nature of Dominican preaching.  The artist shows through an image what we are known for doing through words: contemplating and giving to others the fruits of our contemplation.  Dominicans preach the living Word of God, whether on the pulpit, in writing, or through the arts, but that Word must first be tasted, savored, and become part of our being through focused prayer and study.  In order for the Word to take flesh in our preaching, it must first become flesh in our frailty.               As Advent comes to a rapid close and we find Christmas suddenly upon us, let us stop to reflect on the Incarnation and remember the call of all baptized Christians to let the Word become flesh in the depths of our being.  Let us take a moment to dwell on the One who dwells within us and consider the hope-filled mystery of the season; that by gazing into the fragile manger of our hearts we will find, waiting calmly within, the holy infant whose frailty has ransomed our own, and whose radical self-gift is the very fruit that we are called to embody and share.     2011-12-19T03:37:37-05:00 http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/advent_reflection_4th_week/ http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/advent_reflection_4th_week/#When:03:32:49Z By: Thomas Schaefgen, OP   We all know the annunciation narrative of the Gospel of Luke quite well.  From Advent to feasts of the Blessed Virgin, we read this world-changing story over and again throughout the year.  However, the last time I heard it, it came alive for me in a new way.   I hope it will do the same for each of us, every time we hear this Gospel proclaimed.   Emotions are a deep part of who we are, and the last time I heard this Gospel, I was struck particularly by the emotions of the Blessed Virgin that I think might have surrounded the experience of the Annunciation.  The Angel Gabriel announces to Mary: “Do not be afraid.”  We usually suspect fear to be a negative feeling––one to be avoided.  Yet, as we also know, Fear of the Lord is one of the seven gifts of the Spirit given to us through our Baptism.  I believe that Mary’s fear was a holy one, a Spirit-filled one.  I can imagine that tears streamed from her eyes as she heard the beautiful words of the angel, and she may very well have been weeping as she asked the question “How can this be?”  Could she breathe, could she think straight in the moment?  Where did she find the words?  Intense experiences––something like the appearance of an angel and the announcement of a virgin birth by which God himself would come into the world––are often described as covering the gamut of emotions.  How often have we heard something like: “It was all emotions wrapped up into one!”  Can you imagine the emotions this holy young woman must have felt?  It all must have happened so fast for Mary.  I think it must have begun with fear, at the appearance of the angel and the unbelievable message he brought.  Then, I imagine joy overtook her.  Perhaps even righteous anger at the thought of so many millennia of sin and death and suffering finally coming to an end.  Would she have been sad as well, knowing that such a child would also inevitably bring heartache to her?  Surely this all would have been too much to ‘process’ in the moment.    Despite Gabriel’s proclamation of the birth of Christ as if it were to come true no matter what, Mary recognizes the essential role of her own decision in God’s redemptive work of bringing the Savior into the world: “May it be done.”  She summons the courage, certainly (I suspect), through tears of joy and fear.  And how is it that she could do this?  Mary’s ‘Yes’ is the most momentous of decisions ever made in history, let alone her own life.  And yet I imagine it was done in the midst of intense human emotions.  In a way, the words of the angel, “For nothing will be impossible for God,” are the crescendo, the climax, of the whole experience.  For a young woman, a people, a human race who has awaited the action of God in the midst of suffering––poverty, oppression and war on account of Roman occupation, the continuing downfall of the nation of Israel throughout the centuries, the sorrow of personal and communal sin––finally… the angel’s words mean to say: “What you have awaited, what you have longed for and hoped would come about… it is all true, and is happening in your midst.  It will happen through you.”  Mary, it is right that you should fear, that you should weep, that you should rejoice at the words of the angel.  May we do so as well. 2011-12-17T03:32:49-05:00 http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/thanks/ http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/thanks/#When:00:42:26Z Clarion Hearld  Check out this link of Brother Mariano Veliz helping to feed 150 families. http://www.clarionherald.info/clarion/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=729&catid=155&Itemid=558 2011-12-10T00:42:26-05:00 http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/advent_reflection_the_face_of_the_word/ http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/advent_reflection_the_face_of_the_word/#When:16:59:17Z By: Brian J. Pierce, OP   Have you ever longed to see someone’s face so much so that your heart aches?  I’m talking about the kind of painful longing that a mother feels when she is separated from her children, or the pain of lovers who are separated for a period of time.  I think, too, of soldiers who are far from their loved ones during war or my friend, Santos, who spent 28 years in prison, and saw his mother only once during all those years.  In the Hebrew Scriptures, we often hear God’s people crying out, “When, O Lord, will we see your face? We long to see your face.”  Moses, if you remember, frequently had to hide his face when he found himself in the presence of God, for fear that he would die” (Ex 3:6; 33:20).  The People of Israel lived with this longing in their hearts for centuries. What does it feel like to long to see God’s face with deep passion and love, greater even than the most intense human love we have ever experienced?  In a couple of weeks, as Advent flows into the great celebration of the Incarnation of God’s Word, we will hear about some shepherds who lived in the hills around Bethlehem.  As amateur astrologers, they had some familiarity with the nighttime stars.  But they were expert contemplatives, friends of the nighttime silence, and they knew how to listen to the voice of God.  When Christmas Eve arrives, we will find the shepherds running down from the hills towards the village of Bethlehem – their hearts on fire!  Having heard the angel’s words, they now long to see this joyful event with their own eyes!  They long to see the face of God.  Their lives will never be the same!  Nor will ours!  The “Final Message” from the 2008 Synod on the Word of God said this:     “The eternal and divine Word enters into space and time and takes on a human face and identity, so much so that it is possible to approach him directly asking, as did the group of Greeks present in Jerusalem: "We should like to see Jesus" (Jn 12:20-21). Words without a face are not perfect, they do not fully complete the encounter…”[1]  We, as disciples of Jesus, are invited into that perfect encounter with God’s Word, the profound, contemplative encounter with Jesus.  St. Augustine, who was passionately in love with God, prayed: “Oh Lord, my heart will always be restless until it rests in you!” As our Advent pilgrimage continues, let us give our hearts some time to feel deeply and burn with love for the Word who comes to be with us.   [1] “Final Message to the People of God,” from the Synod of Bishops on the Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church, 2008, #4.     2011-12-09T16:59:17-05:00 http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/advent_and_my_ministry/ http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/advent_and_my_ministry/#When:04:10:52Z By: Brother Augustine DeArmond   When I think of Christmas and how it shapes my spirituality and ministry, I find it helpful to take a step back and see Christmas in the larger scope of the year. American media and the consumer culture tend to jump from Thanksgiving to the Christmas season without any consideration for Advent. In fact, Thanksgiving has had to push hard these past few years to maintain its character as a holiday. However, when we acknowledge distinctive times of the year, such as Advent, and embrace the liturgy of each season, we find a richness of prayer that helps us better enjoy the Christmas season for what it really is: the celebration of our God’s entrance to the world as one like us. Being at Blackfriars Hall in Oxford, England, has helped me appreciate Advent all the more. For the past couple of weeks, friars have talked about Advent Vespers and Caroling. At first, I could not put the two together in my head. I have certainly experienced both. However, I expected some untimely mix of Advent prayer and Christmas songs. Nothing could have been further from the truth.   In between the psalms, the friars and our guests sang beautiful hymns based on the texts of Isaiah and stories of John the Baptist. Each hymn sounded more solemn than Christmas carols I have learned, but just as joyful. Towards the end, the deacon proclaimed the prologue to John’s Gospel, announcing the Word of God coming into the world. The entire event fostered an atmosphere of expectation and excitement. But, we never moved into a Christmas theme. We let the liturgy of Advent have its proper place in our spiritual lives.   As a result, I left our chapel with a renewed sense of enthusiasm for the coming season, but not a feeling that Christmas had come too soon. We are still a community in Advent. We look forward to our celebrations growing more solemn as the days progress.   When I meditate in Advent, it serves as a liturgical moment just before dawn, when all of creation is looking east for the sun to rise. Ultimately, this spiritual awareness of Advent helps me understand and preach Christ’s second coming as well as his first. Rather than focusing on anxiety, doubt, or fear of not being ready, I focus my prayer and preaching on what our lives really are: a long season of Advent in which we prepare ourselves to welcome Christ with the same joy we experience each Christmas. 2011-12-05T04:10:52-05:00 http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/advent_the_season_of_preparation_for_the_coming_of_christ_the_god_man/ http://www.dominicanvocations.com/index.php/blog/more/advent_the_season_of_preparation_for_the_coming_of_christ_the_god_man/#When:22:23:42Z By: Br. Mariano D. Veliz, O.P.         Dear brothers and sisters, the season of Advent is a special time in the Church’s liturgical calendar.  The word, "advent", from the Latin-"advenio"-means "to come to", which implies a preliminary phase or process of preparation for the fulfillment of something of greater importance.  Accordingly, in relation to the liturgical life of the Church, Advent is the beginning of the Church’s liturgical year, which is a special time of preparation for the "coming" of Christ "to" his people.  Indeed, the Church prepares herself for his coming in human history in preparation for his future, final coming.  He alone will fulfill her. He is her Alpha and her Omega, her beginning and her end.  In him alone does she live, move and have her being.  Through him she has been recreated and matures as his body.  She belongs to him.  Consequently, what could be of greater importance for the Church than Christ himself?  On this basis, preparation for the coming of Christ is the object or end of the season of Advent, which is fulfilled: liturgically, on Christmas; and eschatologically, on the Last Day. The First Coming of Christ       What do I mean?  I mean that during the season of Advent the Church, first of all, prepares herself to receive the first coming of Christ—the coming of God’s divine son as the promised "messiah" through his human incarnation as man.  In other words, she prepares herself to commemorate the birth of the God-child, Emmanuel-"God is with us"-on Christmas.  This messiah God-child is the person of Jesus himself, "born of a woman", a virgin daughter of Abraham, of the house of David, for the salvation of God’s people. For this reason, in Jesus, God is present to his people as savior.       According to the Old Testament, God revealed to his prophets that he would send the descendants of Abraham a messiah, a son of David, who would save them.  Indeed, through the centuries he would reveal more and more to them who this future messiah would be, including the more-than-human quality or nature of his messianic vocation or mission.  He would be a righteous man of God who would have the Spirit of the Lord upon him, a spirit of wisdom and of understanding, a spirit of counsel and of strength, a spirit of knowledge and of piety and of fear of the Lord.  As a result, he would be called Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero, Father-Forever and Prince of Peace. Through him God would save his people, the children of Abraham. In other words, he would establish his reign of peace and justice for them forever.  In time God would reveal to his prophets that this salvation for his people through the more-than-human person of the messiah would involve his sacrificial offering of himself—in his suffering and death—for their healing or salvation from sin and the consequences for sin.  Accordingly, Isaiah proclaims that the servant of God: "was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins, upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole, by his stripes we were healed…Through his suffering he shall justify many…Because he surrendered himself to death…he shall take away the sins of many and win pardon for their offenses."  Consequently, the divine son of God could only fulfill this mission of salvation by becoming a son of man through his human incarnation.  Thus, for centuries before the birth of Jesus, God had prepared his people through his prophets to believe in and anticipate the coming of a messianic God-man, a son of David, who could fulfill the divine function of their salvation.        For this reason, in the first century A.D. the inspired authors of the Gospels record that the first members of the messianic Church—the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church of Christ—would be descendants of Abraham who identified Jesus as the promised messiah of God.  These people included the Virgin Mary, Joseph, Simeon, Anna, Peter and the apostles. Gentiles, who identified Jesus as the messianic God-man, would also become members of the Church in the first century A.D.  In fact, during his life and ministry on earth Jesus himself proclaimed that he was the messiah of God.  As such, after Peter confesses to him: "You are the messiah, the son of the living God", Jesus responds, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah.  For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father."  Later, Jesus would also prophesy that as the son of man he would suffer and die.  In him Isaiah’s prophetic revelation of God’s suffering servant would be fulfilled.  What humility!!!  What love!!! The divine person of the Son humbly became man for his love of God’s people.  Indeed, he became man to save humanity.  On this basis, during the season of Advent the Church prepares herself for her commemoration of Christ’s first coming in his human nature as the messianic God-man on Christmas. The Second Coming of Christ       In doing so, the Church also prepares herself for Christ’s parousia on the day of the Lord.  In other words, she prepares herself for his second coming in glory at the end of time.  This is the eschatological coming of Christ.  According to the Old Testament, God revealed to his prophets that a second phase of his plan of salvation was for his messiah to return to earth in glory at the end of the age to administer his final judgment and salvation to humanity.  Thus, the prophet Daniel proclaims in his prophetic revelation from God the glorious coming of a son of man figure at the end of time.  In his prophecy he describes a son of man coming on the clouds of heaven who would receive eternal glory, reign and dominion from God to govern all peoples.  Consequently, he would administer God’s final judgment and salvation to them.  He also implies that this son of man image is more than the person of the messiah himself, just as the image of the body of Christ is more than the person of Christ himself.  In other words, just as the body of Christ is an image of the person of Christ and his members—the Church, the son of man is also an image of the messiah and his members—the righteous, "the holy ones of the Most High". This is the fulfillment of salvation—the messiah with his people.        According to the Gospels, in Jesus' preaching in the first century A.D. he ascribed to himself this image or figure of the son of man, from the prophet Daniel, who would come upon the clouds of heaven with great glory at the end of the age or eschaton to administer God’s final judgment and salvation to humanity.  Hence, he proclaims: "When the son of man comes in his glory…on his glorious throne, all nations will be assembled before him." He will separate the righteous from the unrighteous, "as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats."  The righteous will receive eternal salvation; and the unrighteous, eternal punishment.  On this basis, during the season of Advent the Church's preparation for the first coming of Christ through his human birth also prepares her for the second coming of Christ in his divine glory. The Means of Preparation for the Coming of Christ on Christmas and on the Last Day       The first step in the season of Advent for preparing for the Coming of Christ is to consider the Advent preparation of the Virgin Mary as the first Christmas approached for her.  According to the Lucan account of the Gospel, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth of Galilee to a virgin, named Mary, betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David.  As Gabriel reveals himself to Mary, he proclaims God’s word to her: “"Hail, favored one!  The Lord is with you…You will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus…The holy Spirit will come upon you…Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of Go"  After hearing God’s word, Mary said, "'Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word." Afterwards, Mary traveled to the home of Zechariah and her cousin Elizabeth where she remained for three months to help Elizabeth who was pregnant in her old age with John the Baptist.       What does the Virgin Mary teach the Christian about preparing for the coming of Christ during Advent?  First of all, she teaches her that she cannot prepare for the coming of Christ by herself. This preparation requires something beyond her natural human resources. She requires the divine grace of God for a fruitful preparation.  As Mary, the Christian is called to be God’s "favored one!"  She is called to live in God’s presence.  "The Lord is with you."  The Lord desires to be with you. Accordingly, this is the first requirement for preparing for Christ’s coming: union with God through grace.       Secondly, the Christian is also called to freely cooperate with God’s word, just as Mary did. "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.  May it be done to me according to your word."  By cooperating with God’s word, she conceives the child Jesus in her womb through the Holy Spirit in preparation for his birth.  Hence, just as the birth of the child Jesus first required his human conception in the womb of his mother Mary, the Christian is also called to first conceive the life of Christ in the womb of her heart that she may give birth to him on Christmas.  For the people of God, including Mary, the heart represented the source or center of the interior life of the human being where she formed and nurtured a prayerful life and relationship with God.  As such, this is where the seed or word of God’s grace would first bear fruit in her life.        Finally, cooperating with the word of God also moves Mary to love her neighbor, her cousin Elizabeth, as herself.  This is a reminder that loving service to others is a necessary means of preparing for Christ's coming.  On this basis, the virgin Mary teaches the Christian that the love of God and love of neighbor are inseparable from one another in preparation for Christ during the season of Advent.  Blessings!   Sincerely in Christ with our Most Holy Mother,   Br. Mariano D. Veliz, O.P. 2011-12-02T22:23:42-05:00