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Reflections on Healthcare Ministry

Holy Week

Triduum Liturgies

Enter into the mysteries of the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of our Lord with the Dominican Healthcare Ministry and the Dominican Friars at St. Catherine of Siena Church. HOLY WEEK LITURGIES AT SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA CHURCHPalm Sunday:4:00 p.m. Saturday Low Vigil Read more…

By Fr. Hyacinth Grubb, 6 daysMarch 22, 2023 ago
Ethics

Life is Changed, Not Ended

The Dominican Healthcare Ministry has published a short pamphlet, called Life is Changed, Not Ended, intended to help Catholics consider their eternal end and make adequate preparations for their own death. This publication distills the experience and knowledge of the Read more…

By Fr. Hyacinth Grubb, 1 monthFebruary 13, 2023 ago
Masses and Devotional Events

World Day of the Sick, Feb. 11

On February 11, the Feast Day of Our Lady of Lourdes, the Church celebrates World Day of the Sick in memory of the many healings of body and soul given through the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes.Learn Read more…

By Fr. Hyacinth Grubb, 2 monthsJanuary 24, 2023 ago
About Us

New Name, New Look, Same Ministry

We are starting the new year by updating the name, logo, and website of our ministry! Now called Dominican Healthcare Ministry, a simplification of the previous Dominican Friars Health Care Ministry of New York, we have updated our website and Read more…

By Fr. Hyacinth Grubb, 3 monthsJanuary 10, 2023 ago
Healthcare Holy Hour

Healthcare Holy Hours, 2023

Schedule of Intentions for the Healthcare Holy Hours, Epiphany to Easter 2023

By Fr. Hyacinth Grubb, 3 monthsJanuary 9, 2023 ago
Catholic Medical Association

Catholic Medical Association Meeting, Jan 5

The Catholic Medical Association is the largest association of Catholic individuals in health care, to help members to grow in faith, maintain ethical integrity, and provide excellent health care in accordance with the teachings of the Church. (cathmed.org) The NYC Guild Read more…

By Fr. Hyacinth Grubb, 3 monthsDecember 27, 2022 ago
About Us

“God Chased Me” – Fr. James’ Vocation Story

The priests of Dominican Healthcare Ministry each has their own vocation story, and their own path to the priesthood now dedicated to the spiritual care of the sick. On May 21, 2022 Fr. James Ritch was among 10 new priests Read more…

By Fr. Hyacinth Grubb, 4 monthsNovember 22, 2022 ago
Healthcare Holy Hour

Healthcare Holy Hour Fall 2022

Schedule of Intentions for the Healthcare Holy Hours, Fall of 2022

By Fr. Hyacinth Grubb, 7 monthsSeptember 2, 2022 ago
Healthcare

Dominican Friars on the “Front Lines” in NYC’s COVID-19 Outbreak

Stories About Our Ministry During the COVID-19 Outbreak in New York City During the Spring of 2020 The New York Times: Their Calling Was to Lay Hands on the Sick. Then Came the Coronavirus. EWTN: Ministering to the dying in Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 2 yearsOctober 12, 2020 ago
Holy Week

An Ancient Homily on Holy Saturday

Today is the eighteenth Holy Saturday of my life as a Dominican friar. This morning, for the eighteenth time, I read with my community this selection from the Office of Readings in the Liturgy of the Hours titled, An Ancient Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 3 yearsApril 11, 2020 ago
Holy Week

Good Friday

In our Reflections during this Holy Week, we have tried to understand, enter into, receive from, and share the Paschal Mystery of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have done that in light of Jesus triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the Sacraments Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 3 yearsApril 10, 2020 ago
Holy Week

Holy Thursday: The Actions that Explain the Passion

The Eucharistic institution narrative from Saint Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians and the washing of feet narrative from Saint John’s Gospel that we read on Holy Thursday both help us understand what Jesus is about to do on Good Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 3 yearsApril 9, 2020 ago
Holy Week

Jesus Celebrates the Passover with His Disciples

“In your house,” Jesus says, “I shall celebrate the Passover with my disciples” (Matthew 26:18). In these words from today’s Gospel, Jesus points to the celebration of the Passover as the interpretive lens by which we are to see the Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 3 yearsApril 8, 2020 ago
Holy Week

Spy Tuesday

The Tuesday of Holy Week has traditionally been referred to as “Spy Tuesday.” That designation comes from today’s Gospel reading in which Jesus declares to his disciples, “Amen amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me” (John Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 3 yearsApril 7, 2020 ago
Holy Week

Holy Week: Paschal Mystery and Sacramental Ministry

Today we are reminded of the deep connections between the Paschal Mystery of our Lord that we celebrate especially during Holy Week and Sacramental ministry of our Church. We are reminded of those connections by the readings and prayers of Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 3 yearsApril 6, 2020 ago
Holy Week

Palm Sunday: Passion and Triumph in Our Time

Holy Week begins with a two-fold feast. It has two names: Palm Sunday of the Lord‘s Passion. And it’s Eucharistic liturgy includes two gospel readings: the one about Jesus’ royal entrance into Jerusalem accompanied by “Hosanna”s and palm branches, and Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 3 yearsApril 5, 2020 ago
Ethics

Understanding Catholic Teaching About Artificial Nutrition and Hydration in the Light of Previous Church Teachings and the Catholic Moral Tradition

(This is a research paper. It is longer and more detailed than the “Reflections” on this page. Please enjoy.) Introduction In their article, “Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: The Evolution of Ethics, Evidence, and Policy,” Howard Brody, Laura D. Hermer, Larry Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 4 yearsAugust 29, 2019 ago
Faith

CARRYING the CROSS: SUFFERING, SICKNESS, and SACRIFICE

“If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23). With these words, Jesus makes sacrificial suffering a condition of Christian discipleship. He says this right after his Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 4 yearsMarch 20, 2019 ago
Ethics

IS OURS a CULTURE of LIFE?

Every human life is uniquely precious, of inestimable dignity, and worthy of being valued and protected. That truth, and the ways in which it is both affirmed and denied in our Western culture, has recently been clarified for me in Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 4 yearsFebruary 12, 2019 ago
Faith

HOLY LAND: JESUS THERE and JESUS HERE

Since writing my last Reflection, “Let Us Go to Bethlehem to See,” I have gone to Bethlehem and seen. I also went to Nazareth, the Sea of Galilee, the Mount of Transfiguration, the place where Jesus celebrated the Last Support with Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 4 yearsFebruary 2, 2019 ago
Faith

LET US GO to BETHLEHEM to SEE

We are all familiar with the manger scene. Mary and Joseph kneel by the baby Jesus in the manger with the ox and ass in the stable. They are surrounded by shepherds below and angels above with magi approaching and Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 4 yearsDecember 27, 2018 ago
Faith

“GAUDETE!” ADVENT REJOICING in the MIDST of SORROW

The season of Advent, and Gaudete Sunday in particular, invites us to rejoice. In Year C, our readings on Gaudete Sunday include a passage from Saint Paul’s Letter to the Philippians in which he exhorts his readers, “Rejoice in the Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 4 yearsDecember 16, 2018 ago
Faith

R. I. P.

May the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. This is a prayer we Catholics pray frequently, especially on All Souls Day and throughout the month of November. It is a prayer we Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 4 yearsNovember 11, 2018 ago
Ethics

LETTING OUR LOVED ONES GO HOME to GOD

The Catholic Church opposes euthanasia, understood as the deliberate killing of a person in order to end his or her suffering. We profess that all human life in endowed with dignity and value, whether healthy or sick, productive or disabled. Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 4 yearsOctober 28, 2018 ago
Faith

LOOKING to WHAT IS UNSEEN: GOD’S GLORY in the SICK and SUFFERING

The fourth chapter of Saint Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians is awash with paradox. He says in verse 18 that “we look not to what is seen but to what is unseen.” What is the unseen reality to which Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 4 yearsOctober 14, 2018 ago
Faith

THE STORY of JOSEPH and the PURPOSES of GOD for the SICK

You probably know the story of Joseph and his brothers that is told in chapters 37-50 of the Book of Genesis. Still, allow me to recount it in summary: Joseph was the eleventh son of Jacob, “the child of his Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 4 yearsOctober 7, 2018 ago
Faith

THE PRO-LIFE VISION of SAINT PAUL

Saint Paul is Pro Life. He clearly affirms the goodness of all God’s creation and the goodness of enjoying the good things God has made. He condemns those who “forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 4 yearsSeptember 30, 2018 ago
Faith

WHO AM I?

“You are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God” (Ephesians 2:19). Saint Paul writes this to mostly non-Jewish Ephesian Christians who were not accustomed to being Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsSeptember 23, 2018 ago
Faith

THE HEALING POWER of the CROSS

“The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” So says Saint Paul to the Christians of Corinth (1 Cor 1:18). The message of Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsSeptember 16, 2018 ago
Faith

DOES GOD ALWAYS ANSWER our PRAYERS?

Yes! God always answers our prayers. Jesus assures us of this over and over again. “Ask and it will be given to you, he says, Seek and you will find . . . For everyone who asks, receives; and the Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsSeptember 9, 2018 ago
Faith

THE MYSTERY of HUMAN SUFFERING in the PASSION of JESUS CHRIST

There are many good, true, and important answers that one could give in response to questions about the mystery of suffering in our lives. However, the best, most complete answer to all our questions about human suffering is found in Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsSeptember 2, 2018 ago
Faith

WHY DO GOOD PEOPLE SUFFER?: GOD’S ANSWER to JOB

The Old Testament Book of Job is about a good man whom God allows to suffer. The first verse introduces the title character, “a blameless and upright man named Job, who feared God and avoided evil” (Job 1:1). God Himself Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsAugust 26, 2018 ago
Healthcare

THE “WHY” QUESTION

Why is this happening to me? Why did this happen to my child? What have I done to deserve this? Is God punishing me? Why doesn’t God answer my prayers? I hear questions like these frequently. As a priest and Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsAugust 19, 2018 ago
Healthcare

HEALTH CARE and HOPE

According to J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, there are two kinds of hope. These two kinds of hope are expressed by two different words in an Elvish language Tolkien invented. The words are Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsAugust 12, 2018 ago
About Us

HEALTH CARE MINISTRY in the SPIRIT of SAINT DOMINIC

Saint Dominic is the Holy Founder of the Order of Preachers (the “Dominican” Order) that serves the parish community of St. Vincent Ferrer and St. Catherine of Siena on New York City’s Upper East Side and offers particular service to Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsAugust 5, 2018 ago
Healthcare

THE IMPORTANCE of STORYTELLING in HEALTH CARE

In one of their “Sunday Review” sections, The New York Times published an article titled “Why Doctors Need Stories.” It was written by Peter D. Kramer, a professor of psychiatry at Brown University, whose focus in the article is on the advantages Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsJuly 29, 2018 ago
Ethics

THE ETHICS of BEGINNING-OF-LIFE HEALTH CARE, PART IV: KILLING for the PURPOSES of MEDICINE

We are once again considering the wrongfulness of direct abortion and, more generally, the deliberate killing of human beings in the early stages of their development. We will recall that the term “abortion” refers to the death of an unborn Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsJuly 22, 2018 ago
Ethics

THE ETHICS of BEGINNING-OF-LIFE HEALTH CARE, PART III: ABORTION in TRAUMATIC CIRCUMSTANCES

A direct abortion is an abortion that is deliberately chosen and is always morally wrong. It is morally wrong because it is a kind of murder, an instance of deliberately killing an innocent human being. Since it is an instance Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsJuly 15, 2018 ago
Ethics

THE ETHICS of BEGINNING-OF-LIFE HEALTH CARE, PART II: THE WRONGFULNESS of DIRECT ABORTION

Human life is a precious gift from Godwho made man and woman in His own image and likeness. The human being has the dignity of being a person, not just a something but a someone, by virtue of possessing a Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsJuly 8, 2018 ago
Ethics

THE ETHICS of BEGINNING-OF-LIFE HEALTH CARE, PART I: THE BEGINNING of HUMAN LIFE

Human life is a precious gift from God. In its very first chapter, the Bible tells us, “God created mankind in his image; in the image of God he created them” (Gen 1:27). Human beings are made in God’s image, Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsJuly 1, 2018 ago
Faith

SPE SALVI: SAVING HOPE and HEALTH CARE MINISTRY

Spe Salvi (“saved in hope”) is the title of a marvelous encyclical letter written by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007. The Pope begins his encyclical with these words, but he puts them in quotation marks, because Spe Salvi, before being a Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsJune 24, 2018 ago
Ethics

THE ETHICS of ORGAN and TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION, PART V: CONCLUSIONS

In concluding these reflections on organ and tissue transplantation, I hope to be able to provide some guidance to the ethical deliberations of potential organ and tissue donors and recipients as well as policy makers and clinicians: Potential Donors All Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsJune 17, 2018 ago
Ethics

THE ETHICS of ORGAN and TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION, PART IV: OTHER FORMS of TRANSPLANTATION

When we think of organ and tissue transplantation, we first might think of the donation of fully developed human body parts like kidneys, hearts, lungs, or skin. There are, however, some forms of transplantation that only involve the donation of Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsJune 10, 2018 ago
Ethics

THE ETHICS of ORGAN and TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION, PART III: DIAGNOSING DEATH

In order to ethically transplant vital organs from a consenting donor, it is necessary that the donor’s death be confirmed. This is the principle underlying the “dead donor rule,” requiring that donors of vital organs be confirmed dead before transplant. Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsJune 3, 2018 ago
Ethics

THE ETHICS of ORGAN and TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION, PART II: DONATION AFTER DEATH

Organ and tissue transplantation is a growing area of contemporary medical practice that raises a variety of ethical concerns. This article will consider transplantations from donors after bodily death, including the transplantation of vital organs such as heart, lung, and Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsMay 27, 2018 ago
Ethics

THE ETHICS of ORGAN and TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION, PART I: LIVING HUMAN DONORS

Organ and tissue transplantation is a growing area of contemporary medical practice that raises a variety of ethical concerns. This article will consider the transplantation of organs or tissue from living human donors, examine some of the ethical questions these Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsMay 20, 2018 ago
Ethics

THE RIGHTS of CONSCIENCE

The right of an individual to follow his or her conscience has long been a matter of dispute in our society. In times of war, for example, men subject to military draft have claimed conscientious objection. Should they be permitted Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsMay 13, 2018 ago
About Us

CHRIST the HEALER, PART V: JESUS’ HEALING in DOMINICAN FRIARS HEALTH CARE MINISTRY of New York

Dominican Friars Health Care Ministry of New York is an extension of the health care ministry of the Catholic Church. The health care ministry of the Catholic Church is, in turn, an extension of the health care ministry of Jesus Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsMay 6, 2018 ago
Faith

CHRIST the HEALER, PART IV: JESUS’ HEALING MINISTRY CONTINUES in HIS CHURCH

Jesus Christ, in his earthly lifetime, showed himself to be the divine physician, healing bodies and spirits by his power and goodness, as God shining through his fully human heart. Jesus shared this healing ministry with his disciples both during Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsApril 29, 2018 ago
Faith

CHRIST the HEALER, PART III: JESUS SENDS HIS DISCIPLES to HEAL in HIS NAME

Jesus performed innumerable healing miracles during his brief public ministry. Jesus’ healings demonstrated the power and tender love of God at work within him. They also demonstrated Jesus’ human love and heart-felt compassion for his sisters and brothers in distress. Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsApril 22, 2018 ago

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