The Dominican Healthcare Ministry 11:45am Daily Mass at St Catherine’s is now open for intentions from healthcare workers and medical staff. The Sacrifice of the Mass is the most powerful prayer of the Christian people, and we encourage all who care for the sick to ask for Masses to be offered Read more…
Join the Dominican Healthcare Ministry for the St. Gianna Mass on Thursday, May 16th at 6:30pm, offered for couples suffering infertility and miscarriage. St. Gianna Berretta Molla is the patron of mothers, physicians, and unborn children. St. Gianna, born in Italy in 1922, was a pediatric physician and mother of Read more…
Join the Dominican Healthcare Ministry and the Friends of St. Margaret on Friday, April 12th at 5:15pm for our annual St. Margaret of Castello Mass. St. Margaret was born with many serious physical disabilities, was rejected by her family, and eventually found a home as a Third Order Dominican. She was Read more…
This Thursday, December 7th, we will have a very special guest at our weekly Healthcare Holy Hour. Fr. Mike Ford, OP, director of the St. Jude Shrine in Chicago, will bring the arm relic of St. Jude. This is one of the largest relics of an apostle outside of Europe, Read more…
On November 15th we celebrate the Feast of St. Albert the Great, who was a teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas, a natural scientist and pioneer of the scientific method, and patron of scientists. The Society of Catholic Scientists will host the annual Gold Mass for Scientists at St. Joseph’s Church in Read more…
On October 18th we celebrate the feast of St. Luke, patron of physicians. The Catholic Medical Association New York Metropolitan Guild and Dominican Healthcare Ministry will host a special Mass for Healthcare Workers. All physicians, nurses, medical students, healthcare professionals are especially invited, as well as anyone who would like to Read more…
Next week the Church celebrates the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross and the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. This pair of feast days is especially important to us in the Dominican Healthcare Ministry, who in the care of the sick meet Christians carrying their own cross and Read more…
This fall, on September 30th, the Dominican Friars will host the first annual Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage. This is a national pilgrimage celebrating the Rosary at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. The parish of St. Vincent Ferrer and St. Catherine of Siena will host Read more…
Please join us on Tuesday August 29th for the conclusion of the 125th anniversary year of the Dominican Friars’ ministry at St. Catherine of Siena Church. Our special anniversary Mass to thank the Lord for his merciful love shown at this church for so many years will begin at 5:15pm. His Eminence Timothy Read more…
Join the Dominican Healthcare Ministry for the St. Gianna Mass on Monday May 8th at 6:30pm, offered for couples suffering infertility and miscarriage. St. Gianna Berretta Molla is the patron of mothers, physicians, and unborn children. St. Gianna, born in Italy in 1922, was a pediatric physician and mother of Read more…
Join the Dominican Healthcare Ministry and the Friends of St. Margaret on Friday April 21st at 5:15pm for our annual St. Margaret of Castello Mass. St. Margaret was born with many serious physical disabilities, was rejected by her family, and eventually found a home as a Third Order Dominican. She Read more…
Schedule of Intentions for the Healthcare Holy Hours, Epiphany to Easter 2023
Schedule of Intentions for the Healthcare Holy Hours, Fall of 2022
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 one who seeks, finds . . . If you, who Read more…
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 a chaplain to suffering patients their families, I get the Read more…
The patients I encounter in my health care ministry are not, for the most part, runners. Many of them can walk, others have hopes of walking or even running again, and some, sadly, must accept that their ambulatory days are behind them. For all these people, however, and for every Read more…
There are great joys that people in health care get to experience. Patients get well, receive favorable diagnoses, overcome difficult bouts of illness, and emerge from sickness with deepened gratitude and fresh perspective. Those who care for those patients feel that joy too, along with the satisfaction of having helped Read more…
I am writing this on September 29, the feast day of the archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. They are the three angels who are named in the Bible, whom God sent to his people for specific purposes. Those purposes are revealed in the meaning of their names: Michael means “Who Read more…
In recounting the events of Easter Sunday, The Gospel of Luke presents us with the beautiful narrative in which Jesus walks with the two disciples travelling on the road to Emmaus. The disciples were speaking to each other about their sorrow and disappointment about what had happened to Jesus. They Read more…
Throughout the forty days of Lent, the Church invites us to practice penance by praying, fasting, and giving alms. As the gospel reading for Ash Wednesday (see Matt 6:1-6, 16-18) reminds us, that penance is not meant to be a matter of merely external observances, but is to proceed from Read more…
People faced with dire circumstances often pray to God for miracles. The patients in the hospitals I serve, along with their families and loved ones, frequently offer such prayers. In the church of St. Catherine of Siena, where I live and minister, we have a shrine to St. Jude, who Read more…
“I am angry with God” I often hear this from patients in the hospitals. They are expressing disappointment, the feeling that God has let them down. It may be a woman who has prayed to God for healing and the illness has only gotten worse. It may be a man Read more…