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THE
TRUMPET
N E W S L E T T E R O F T H E D O M I N I C A N F R I A R S • P R O V I N C E O F S T. J O S E P H
THE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: A JOB WELL DONE!
Dear Friends,
Let us rejoice! The Lord has risen!
Welcome to this issue of The Trumpet.
Fittingly, it heralds the arrival of spring
and with it the promise of new life—
new life for all the faithful and, in a par-
ticular way, new life for the Dominican
Foundation and all the Friars of the
Province of St. Joseph. Let us thank God for His abiding and
unfailing Love that generates this new life in us and through us.
This is a gift, but also a call. A call to be instruments of His
Love. Let us be faithful as He is faithful.
I invite you, on behalf of all the Friars—our hearts filled with
gratitude for your constant support and generosity—to survey
in these pages the inspiring things we have achieved, together
with you and aided by God’s grace, through our comprehensive
Capital Campaign (1999-2010), the successful completion of
which we formally announced and celebrated at the annual
Foundation Board meeting in March.
Before you, in pictures and in words, is the story of the Capital
Campaign that raised a total of $28M, $3M more than what
was hoped for! In 1999, at the dawn of the new century, the
Friars called on you, our cherished friends and faithful bene-
factors, to help put us in the best possible position to serve the
Church in the 21st century, and to pave the way for us to
continue fulfilling our charism in ways both time-tested and
new. You responded in a way that we could not have imagined.
Our particular needs were prompted by ongoing, key devel-
opments: each year, dozens of young men express a strong
desire to join the Order, and a growing number of laity is
discovering the riches of a renewal of Thomism; our Vicariate
of Eastern Africa is bursting with life; our older Friars have
mounting and expensive health care needs; and a new century
calls for new ways of preaching.
Thus, the goals—or, as we have referred to them, the four
pillars—of the Campaign were set: we must have the means to
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educate and form young men for their vocations as Dominican
priests and cooperator brothers and leverage our resources to
equip laity for ministry, as well; our missionary work in Eastern
Africa requires investment in new infrastructure, such as parishes
and priories, and the formation of a new generation of Eastern
African Dominicans; we have to find ways to properly care for
Friars who have given their entire lives to serving the Church
in the Order; and all the Friars, young and old, must expand
their preaching ministry—through study and taking advan-
tage of new technology—to meet the needs of people coping
with a media-saturated age and a pace of life that seems to
grow faster by the day.
The centerpiece of the Capital Campaign became the construc-
tion of the new Academic Center and Theological Library at
the Dominican House of Studies, which was dedicated a year
ago. The House of Studies will be a world-class center of learn-
ing and spiritual formation for many decades to come, serving
the English-speaking world at large. Here, generations of voca-
tions to the Order will be equipped to serve the Lord in the
fullest way possible.
In Kenya, a new parish house was built on the grounds of
St. Catherine’s Church in Nairobi, bringing the Friars that
much closer to the people they serve. And, also in the capital
city, we were able to construct a new house for the community
of Friars at St. Dominic’s—a much larger one than its prede-
cessor, because of the increase in vocations. These and other
developments have paved the way for the Vicariate to welcome
students from other African countries.
The Campaign helped us to provide for the needs of the
Friars living at the Center for Assisted Living at St. Dominic’s
Church in Washington, D.C., which is providing a nurturing
environment for those requiring limited daily physical and
medical care. We have begun to look at ways to update other
priories in the Province, so that aging Friars need not always
leave the communities they have been part of for so many years
and can ‘age-in-place’. Money raised helps pay for insurance
premiums and uninsured medical expenses incurred by Friars
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 INAUGURATION DAY

NEW HOPE
FOR A NEW
CENTURY
CHRONICLING THE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN

THE INAUGURATION OF THE ‘NEW’ DOMINICAN HOUSE

OF STUDIES—On April 18-19, 2009, students and staff of the
Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican
House of Studies in Washington, D.C. joined the entire Province
of St. Joseph—along with friends, benefactors and dignitaries from
around the world—for the formal dedication of the school’s new
Academic Center and Theological Library.

The Master of the Dominican Order, Fr. Carlos

Azpiroz Costa, O.P. was among the guests of
honor at the inaugural weekend.

GROUNDBREAKING—Prior Provincial Fr. Dominic Izzo, O.P. breaks

ground for the new Academic Center and Theological Library on May 17,
2007. He is joined by Dominican Foundation Board President Ray Clark,
Br. Gregory Schnakenberg, O.P., Fr. Joseph Barranger, O.P., Fr. Reginald
Whitt, O.P., Fr. Gabriel O’Donnell, O.P., and Fr. Steven Boguslawski, O.P.
MASS OF THANKSGIVING—Archbishop
Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C. celebrates
Mass in the chapel of the Dominican House of
Studies, declaring the new building a sign of
hope for the Church throughout the US.
 MEDIA—NEW & OLD

Fr. Guilbeau
provides media
coverage of Pope
Benedict XVI’s
pastoral visit to
the US in spring
2008.

Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P. and Fr. Gabriel Gil-

len, O.P., in the New York studios of Sirius XM Ra-
dio, during a broadcast of “Word to Life,” a weekly
radio show on “The Catholic Channel”

VOCATIONS

The state-of-the-art new Web site

of the Province of St. Joseph is an ex-
ceptional tool to proclaim the Gospel
in the age of Twitter and Facebook.

Vocations are growing each year:

currently we have 45 men in forma-
tion and 11 novices.

Fr. Gillen gets to the heart of the fallacy
underlying an atheist campaign in New York’s
subway stations (NY Daily News, Nov. 9, 2009).
VOCATION WEEKEND—Each
year increasing numbers of young
men spend a weekend at the Do-
minican House of Studies to experi-
ence the common life of the Friars.

SUPPORTING THE FOREIGN MISSIONS

Newly ordained Fr. Luke Bett, O.P.

celebrating his Mass of Thanksgiving

The new house for the community of St. Dominic’s in Nairobi, Kenya was completed
in early 2008—with 30 bedrooms there is plenty of room to accommodate the new
growth. The new parish house for St. Catherine of Siena in Nairobi (top right) was fin-
ished in fall 2008. “The presence of the Friars on the compound has given parishioners
a new sense of hope for the future of the parish,” says Fr. David Adiletta, O.P., Vicar
Provincial for the Vicariate of Eastern Africa.

Celebrating with friends & family after Vestition Ceremony in Kisumu, Kenya
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'THE REASONS FOR THEIR HOPE'
“Dominicans tend to focus on the spiritual
works of mercy. St. Dominic’s preaching was
designed to alleviate the spiritual poverty
that he saw around him by refuting error,
offering instruction, and comforting and
encouraging those who found the Gospel
difficult to understand. There is a real need
for this kind of preaching today, and I believe that the Dominican
way of life is tuned to respond to this need.”
—Br. Reginald Mary Lynch, O.P.
“Evangelization and re-evangelization depend
upon individuals being conversant with those
who have been predominantly formed by
the culture at-large. They are unafraid to
bring the fullness of the Gospel to them,
because good evangelizers or preachers are
able to articulate the internal intelligibility
of the faith here and now, and with a good measure of joy. More
simply put, our students can explain the reasons for their hope.”
—Father Steven Boguslawski, O.P.
“By supporting the Dominican Order, our
benefactors and those who pray for us
take part in a mission the Pope has called
the ‘supreme and fundamental priority of
the Church—leading men and women to
God.’ If men do not join us, if benefactors
do not give to us, and if intercessors do not
pray for us, the Church’s mission would suffer! There is only
one Order of Preachers.” —Brother James Dominic Brent, O.P.
The Capital Campaign: A Job Well Done!
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young and old. Clearly, this is an area of ongoing and mount-
ing need.
In New York, media-savvy young Friars have begun to produce
a weekly radio show on Scripture and other topics that is
broadcast to a national audience on satellite radio. The Province
website received a complete make-over and now features the
very latest in audio and video technology—anchoring one of
the Order’s mottos, “To Praise, To Bless, and To Preach”, in
the modern age. Communication, of course, is fundamental
to preaching and our work in this vital realm will continue to
develop and grow.
These, of course, are but some of the projects in the pillars of
the campaign which have been accomplished side-by-side with
you, our invaluable friends and co-workers. You will find more
highlights in the following pages.
Please join us next in breaking new ground with the launch of
Dominican Friars-Province of St. Joseph
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“Thomism allows the human mind and
human culture to attain perennial wisdom.
This is particularly crucial in our present
age of relativism. The moral crisis in our
culture invites the Church to insist anew
on the first principles of our understanding
of fundamental metaphysical truths and
moral foundations.…The Dominican House of Studies will be
preparing young Dominicans, other priests and lay people to
promote Christian wisdom in the 21st century. Our graduates
will fan out to other places far and wide, like the Angelicum
in Rome, where they will teach people from all over the world.
We have a teaching apostolate.” —Father Thomas Joseph
White, O.P., professor of theology at the Pontifical Academy of the
Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies
“Stewardship is not simply making dona-
tions or taking care of the building and
grounds. It is a spirituality—hence a way
of life. Stewardship involves a conversion
and trusting that if we give of the first fruits,
God will take care of us! Many people ‘feel
good’ when they give to a charity. But
when someone takes the leap and begins the life of steward-
ship, their faith grows. They begin to ‘let go and let God’ and
thereby the organization they are giving to (hopefully the
Dominicans!) is better off and, in numerous ways, so is the
giver! This may be God’s way of taking care of both the giver
and receiver. —Caroline Melson, a parishioner at St. Gertrude’s
Church, the Dominican-run parish in Cincinnati,OH
our Annual Appeal, our sustaining giving program. Building
on the success of the past decade, the Annual Appeal will
henceforth seek to meet the needs of the Province. In the next
issue of The Trumpet—as well as in my monthly electronic
messages (to receive these, just send an email to df@opfriars.org)
—you will read more about the particulars of the Appeal.
For now let us give thanks and glory to God for loving us so
much that He sent us His only Son, as we celebrate the bless-
ings of Easter and His faithfulness. And for a job well done:
the Capital Campaign, whose pillars stood so firmly thanks to
your ongoing sacrifices and unflagging commitment.
Along with all the Friars, I send you and your loved ones
prayers of gratitude. May God bless and reward you always.
Sincerely yours, in the Risen Christ,
Very Reverend D. Dominic Izzo, O.P.
Prior Provincial