June 12, 2018
The Dominicans have just celebrated the missionary jubilee of 150 years on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Father John Maria Devanney, OP, host of orders Words for life The Sirius XM program takes me through the history of the Dominicans in New York (including a considerable history of the city itself). From Rose Hawthorne to Andy Warhol, it’s a fascinating and bountiful heritage.
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Words for lifeFr. John’s Sirius XM Radio Program https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/word-to-life/id1416667926
St. Joseph’s Dominican Monks https://opeast.org/category/word-to-life/
St. John Paul II Association https://www.stjohnpaul.org/
Angelic War Match http://www.angelicwarfareconfraternity.org/
The book John mentioned by the priest, Pioneer Priests and Makeshift Altars: Catholic History in 13 Colonies Fr. Charles Conner https://amzn.to/2mk6iyo
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2:17 Father John’s background and a call to the priesthood
4:34 Parish Mission: The beginning of the Dominican Province in Manhattan in 1867. Catholic demographics in New York at the time
The second church in St. Vincent Ferre was built after the arrival of more Irish immigrants at 14:57. Dominican sisters of St. Mary of Springs
17:20 British sisters who served poor immigrants and began to become Dominican sisters of Sparkle.
21:07 Bishop John Hughes, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Dominican Monks are in the west
26:38 The first two bishops of New York were Dominicans
28:47 The Gilded Age of New York: Opening the Abbey of St. Vincent Ferr and the Mission Church of St. Catherine in Siena
35:07 Rose Hawthorne’s story and her founding of a community of Dominican sisters who care for poor cancer patients (“Hawthorne Dominicans”)
41:54 The cause of Rose’s canoeing and its importance in the struggle of suicide assistants. More generally her connection with Sloan Ketter and Dominican hospital work in New York
47:48 The key role of Dominican nuns and sisters
49:44 The present St. Vincent Ferrar Church built in Gothic style by the great architect Bertram Goodhue
52:02 Stained Glass Aristotle’s window. His importance to the Dominicans
56:15 Neighborhood development since the 1950s
57:39 Andy Warhol attends St. Vincent Feller
1:01:28 The Catholicism of the Public Sphere and the Arts of the Mid-20th Century
1:03:42 The Dominican mission to influence NYC as today’s cultural hub. Dominican contribution to Catholicism in the United States is a life of prayer
1:09:55 McGrin under the direction of Sister Lucia, part of the bloody Cassock of Fr. St. John Paul II
1:14:48 The importance of the rosary to the Dominicans and all Catholics
1:18:56 Fr. Matthew Carroll has made his sisters develop habits again
1:27:36 Excerpt from this week: Pope St. John Paul II,
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