Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP
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Dominican Friar at @opeast , Chaplain and VP at @CatholicUniv , Instructor at @PFIC_DHS .
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"I'm not a Catholic, but I played one once in the movies."
Whoopi: "The archbishop of San Francisco is calling for speaker Nancy Pelosi to be denied receiving Communion because of her pro-choice stance ... this is not your job, dude. That is not up to you to make that decision."
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For every one thing worth cheering about Amy Coney Barrett's apparent nomination, there are ten things worth praying for. We should take the time to do so. Beginning tomorrow, she and her family will face principalities and powers that most of us won't ever encounter.
#PrayforAmy
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We deserved neither of them, yet we got them both. God’s grace really is gratuitous.
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I'm 18 years a priest today.
"Holy Father, who by no merit of my own chose me for communion with the eternal priesthood of your Christ and for the ministry of your Church, grant that I may be an ardent yet gentle preacher of the Gospel and a faithful steward of your mysteries."
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“Canceling Mass” does not accurately describe what dioceses are doing in response to the COVID-19 threat. Mass will continue to be said daily by priests everywhere. The bishops have simply asked priests not to celebrate Mass publicly, so as to protect the faithful from infection.
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After 19 years of experience I can tell you, offering Mass never gets old.
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If the sanctuary can be secured, even if just for himself, the archbishop of Paris should celebrate Mass in the cathedral on Easter Sunday morning.
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Christmas was yesterday. Today is Sunday. Go to Mass.
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Dear God,
Please send us another St. Augustine.
Thank you,
The Church
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Were I ever to renounce my vows and abandon the grace of ordination—and make a public spectacle of it—please do not tell me “Praying for you, Father!” or “Wishing you the best!” or “You’re so brave!” Instead, quote the Lord to me: “Do you also wish to go away?” (John 6:67).
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Rosary Walk on Capitol Hill, in reparation for sins against justice, and for the healing of the nation.
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The 800 year-old stone vaulting of Notre Dame worked as designed. Amazing. The wooden roof went up like a tinderbox, but the embers were caught by the vaulting just beneath, with very little of it giving way, preserving the interior below.
#NotreDameCathedral
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What was true yesterday remains true today: a priest may not bless sinful actions, sinful intentions, or sinful relationships or partnerships.
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The expected COVID-19 baby boom will be complemented by an unexpected COVID-19 vocations boom.
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The barista at a
#UnionStation
coffee shop refused to take my money this morning. For payment, he asked instead that I say a prayer for him and his three colleagues. In gratitude for their kindness, please join me in remembering their intentions.
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Adoration with 55K+ pilgrims in the stands of Lucas Oil Stadium concludes the last evening of the National Eucharistic Congress. Tonight sealed the Congress as a new WYD Denver. Its grace will shape the Church for the next 50 years.
@EWTN
@CatholicUniv
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Please pray for these 9 brothers. They will be ordained to the priesthood on Saturday.
Humbert Kilanowski, O.P.
Pier Giorgio Dengler, O.P.
Leo Camurati, O.P.
Timothy Danaher, O.P.
Aquinas Beale, O.P.
Mannes Matous, O.P.
Henry Stephan, O.P.
Peter Gautsch, O.P.
Isaac Morales, O.P.
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The more priests talk to Boomers, the more they learn that Boomers' parents--the Greatest Generation--told their children early on to ignore certain teachings of the Church. This is an under-appreciated piece of the current puzzle.
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Like the legal redefinition of marriage, the legal redefinition of sex does not represent the defeat of faith in the public square. It's worse than that. It represents the defeat of reason. Faith cannot supply the plain truth--of man and woman--that reason refuses to see.
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Fifteen men received the habit and entered our novitiate on Thursday. Please pray for Brs. John-David, Raymond, Isaac, Alphonsus, Nathaniel, Seamus, Cyprian, Pier Giorgio, Sean, Mannes, Simeon, Joshua, Aloysius, Hyacinth, and Seth. May they flourish in their Dominican vocation.
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Civic officials really do need to account for why citizens may gather in the thousands to demonstrate but families cannot accompany their dying or care properly for their dead.
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Tonight, the Church officially turns the page on 2020. Good riddance. May the Year of Grace 2021 bring us greater blessings than its predecessor.
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Folks, Francis is pope.
How is this even a question?
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Peter travels to the land of Abraham. This is Acts-of-the-Apostles-level stuff.
📹VIDEO: Pope Francis arrived in Baghdad, in the first ever papal visit to Iraq. He will be the first pope to visit the birthplace of Abraham and to celebrate Mass in the Chaldean rite. It is his first trip in over a year. Let's join him in prayer!
#PopeFrancisinIraq
#PopeInIraq
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Public support for
#AlfieEvans
isn't rooted in medical ignorance. It's rooted in disbelief over a court's unbending rejection of Alfie's parents' pleas as unreasonable. Yet the parents' reasonableness is confirmed by the support for Alfie voiced by governments across the globe.
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In God's good mercy, may they soon pick up where they left off . . .
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When Vatican Two concluded in 1965, there were ZERO Chick-fil-A restaurants.
Now there are over 3,800.
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It's Saturday. Call your mother. Pray the rosary.
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There is only one option: "Rebuild my church."
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"Because you have been able to adore the Lord less than usual, we have devoted ourselves to adoring him more."
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"Well done, good and faithful servant . . . Enter into the joy of your master."
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Some personal news. I'm humbled and grateful. Please keep me, the campus ministry staff, and the entire
@CatholicUniv
community in your prayers.
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It remains part of the mystery of Fatima that two of these three children died in a global pandemic.
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Lots of new Catholics were made tonight. To each of you: Welcome! You are treasured. You are loved. Most importantly, you are Christ's.
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Official word from Paris is that the 13th-century rose windows survived the fire. Deo gratias! If they were priceless before, what are they now?
#NotreDameFire
Notre-Dame de Paris: les vitraux des rosaces intacts, l'orgue épargné par les flammes
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Reuters subtly reminds us that something bad happened in France a little over 200 years ago.
For the first time in more than 200 years there will be no Christmas mass held at Paris' Notre-Dame cathedral after a massive fire in April caused major damage to its structure
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St. Thomas Aquinas was canonized 700 years ago today, on July 18, 1323. In the next year, we'll also celebrate the 750th anniversary of his death and the 800th of his birth. For all students, teachers, and preachers of the faith -- St. Thomas, pray for us!
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Unexplored model of the Church: Church as Tavern.
"The Church is a tavern standing on the Bridge, to provide food and comfort for the travelers and the pilgrims, who pass by the way of the doctrine of My Truth, lest they should faint through weakness." -St. Catherine of Siena
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The best thing that the Church can do for youth is to teach their parents the faith.
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How long before states coerce plants to divulge what they hear in confession?
Today in chapel, we confessed to plants. Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor.
What do you confess to the plants in your life?
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The hearts of priests are with their people. Where else could they be? They worry for the sick, the anxious, and the sinful. They agonize with the bewildered, the disappointed, and the angry. In the uncertainty of COVID-19, they are charting new paths of charity and fatherhood.
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“If somebody should ask, ‘You have received the Holy Spirit, why do you not speak in tongues?’ your reply should be, ‘I do indeed speak in the tongues of all men, because I belong to the body of Christ, that is, the Church, and she speaks all languages.’” —6th-Century Author
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Today I set my personal best for youngest child baptized. The newly enlightened was just 4 days old.
That will be too fast for most families, but none should needlessly delay: "Parents are obliged to see that their infants are baptized within the first few weeks." (CIC 867.1)
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At Mass this morning, during the general intercessions, the deacon prayed for an end to Communism. It struck me that I haven't heard that petition in a while. Perhaps we should pray more for an end to Communism, and for the defeat of the Marxist anthropology that inspires it.
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The preacher at Mass this morning uncovered the connection between Genesis 1:3--"Let there be light"--and Matthew 5:14--"You are the light of the world"--and I'll never be able to unsee it. That's the fruit of good preaching.
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After two years of study, a group of European scientists conclude that the 1988 Carbon-14 dating of the shroud, which suggested that the relic is a medieval forgery, proves unreliable. They recently published their findings in Oxford's 'Archaeometry.'
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St. Peter Damian introduced the nap into the Western monastic schedule: "For it is indeed better to make a moderate concession to the flesh in sleeping and fervently to sing later the praises of God, rather than to spend the whole day sleepily yawning."
#CommonSenseReform
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TIL that I joined an extremist group.
(WARNING: The image below contains rosaries.)
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Funny, I don't recall the hundreds of thousands of participants at the annual
@March_for_Life
, including the hundreds of marchers from
@CatholicUniv
, getting the same kind and helpful travel advice from
@wmata
.
Howdy👋 Don't miss the Children's Pride Parade this morning. Avoid the traffic & parking rush by taking 🚇Metro. Enjoy the fun, inclusive, and memorable event with babies, toddlers, and teens.🌈
#wmata
#YourMetro
#PrideMonth
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Peter's nets did not tear then. Peter's nets will not tear now.
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Tonight, the Church in America prays in faith and hope. Tomorrow, she marches in love.
#MarchForLife
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To be sure, St. Thomas never said any such thing. To make him say this, one has to equate foregoing the “requirement of ecclesiastical authority” with excommunication, a mistake Aquinas would certainly have avoided making.
And, as this article notes, St. Thomas Aquinas famously said he'd rather be excommunicated than go against his conscience: "[O]ne’s own conscience, which must be obeyed before all else, if necessary even against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority."
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“Friends of Notre Dame de Paris president Michel Picaud says that over 90% of the money his foundation has raised has come from Americans.”
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While in St. Louis for
#SEEK2024
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In lieu of marching this year, the friars of the House of Studies are spending the day before the Blessed Sacrament, storming heaven with prayer for an end to abortion, for mothers and families mourning their loss, and for the worldwide defense of life.
#WhyWeMarch
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All the saints of the Order of Preachers are praying for you today. When you get a moment, say thank you.
#AllDominicanSaints
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"I believe whatever the Son of God has said." -St. Thomas Aquinas
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Today is the feast of
#OurLadyofFatima
, who in 1917 appeared six times to siblings Francisco and Jacinta Marto, and to their older cousin Lucia dos Santos. They relayed how Our Lady pleaded for prayer and penance for the conversion of sinners, so that the world might know peace.
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Not what I expected to find on the TL this morning.
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Regardless of who wins today, this map won't change. It's solid.
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Today is the feast of
#StDamienofMolokai
, the 19th-c. Belgian missionary to Hawaii. He was ordained in Honolulu in 1864, and in 1873 he took charge of the leper colony on Molokai. After years of heroic, tireless service, Damian contracted the disease and died in 1889, at age 49.
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21 years ago today. Deo gratias!
Please say a prayer of thanksgiving for all priests celebrating their ordination anniversaries at this time of year.
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That’s a lot of priests. So many that the entrance procession hits a bottleneck. A good problem to have.
#NEC
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Much is up for grabs in today's election. But not everything.
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“You may think past ages were good, but it is only because you are not living in them.” -St. Augustine
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Giving thanks to God today for 17 years of a priestly life better than I deserve. God is lavish in his goodness. To my classmates, and to all of my brother priests: Ad multos annos!
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"On August 6, a small choir introduced chant and Renaissance-style polyphonic hymns to a group of inmates. At the end of the concert, 25 prisoners volunteered to form a prison 'schola' in support of an upcoming Latin Mass."
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In your prayers, please remember the Dominican Order. We turn 806 today.
@Dominican_Order
@opeast
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#CatholicTwitter
, let's pray for the many men and women--today's Nicodemuses--who would never be seen entering a church or speaking to a priest, but who are lurking anonymously online, watching live-streamed Masses and lectures, and are having a heart-to-heart with the Lord.
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Some personal news, as they say.
Congratulations to our
@CatholicUniv
University Chaplain,
@FrAquinasOP
, he will serve as the first ever Vice President of Ministry and Mission at The Catholic University of America.
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August is a month of saints: Alphonsus, John Vianney, Dominic, Teresa Benedicta, Lawrence, Jane de Chantal, Maximilian Kolbe, Stephen of Hungary, Bernard, Pius X, Rose of Lima, Bartholomew, Monica, Augustine, John the Baptist--and at month's center, Our Lady, assumed and crowned.
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Whether a sin is serious or not so serious, the point is . . . don’t do it.
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Tragic news. Praying for Adrian, his wife, the entire Vermeule family, and especially for Spencer. Requiescat in pace.
Together we mourn the loss of Spencer Vermeule and pray for his family, loved ones and all those who are impacted by his passing.
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Please pray for the repose of the soul of Fr. John Burke, OP, who died this week at the ripe young age of 91. For decades, Fr. Burke taught preaching at the House of Studies, forming a generation or two of friars to love and communicate the Word of God. Requiescat in pace.
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I’m sorry there is no possible way that you can be intelligent and be an atheist.
I'm sorry there is no possible way that you can be intelligent and be religious.
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Dear men, what is preventing you from looking--and living, and preaching--like this?
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Please pray for Amelia, a long-time friend of the House of Studies.
Naval Academy, 9 years Navy Officer and today she gave everything up entering the Cloistered Carmelite Nuns in Loretto PA. Amelia, your faith, your courage and your love for Jesus are huge signs of hope in today’s crazy world. Thank you for saying yes! Thank you for your witness!
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Nope. Try that again.
Pelosi on abortion: "I’m a very Catholic person, and I believe in every woman’s right to make her own decisions."
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Today the
@Dominican_Order
turns 803 years old. In your prayers, please remember the sons and daughters of St. Dominic--all of the friars, nuns, sisters, and laity--that we may persevere in the grace of the Word: conceiving, nurturing, and bearing the Word to souls hungry for it.
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The moral principle that forbids assassinating civic officials and political candidates is the same that forbids killing the unborn, the newborn, the disabled, the elderly, the terminally ill, and every innocent. A just politics articulates, defends, and promotes this principle.
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Tomorrow, on the last day of our community retreat, the friars of the Dominican House of Studies will observe a day of prayer and penance in reparation for the sins of the clergy. Join us in offering prayers and sacrifices to God for his mercy, justice, and healing grace.
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The sanctuary of my home parish is always so beautiful at Christmas.
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The story of everyman and sin in 44 seconds.
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The Letters of Peter do not receive the attention that they deserve.
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For the first time in over a year, I offered one of the Masses at
@MarysShrine
.
Nature is healing.
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