The affectionate greeting of the Dominican Father Gabriel Giordano to the readers of The Island of Patmos within days of his priestly ordination

Father Gabriele

The AFFECTIONATE GREETINGS OF THE DOMINICAN FATHER GABRIELE DE JORDAN TO READERS THE ISLAND OF PATMOS A FEW DAYS AFTER HIS PRIESTLY CONSECRATION

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[…] I pray for each of you: It gave, in its invisible Trinitarian Missions, grant you a very strong light of grace to contemplate the mysteries contained in the sacred pages and embody it in environments where you live, in your little newspaper in the family, or for religious and priests who read our lines, also in your parishes and communities. The Lord has for each of us a larger project: written in our hearts, It is for us to just discover it and then put ourselves at your service.

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Author:
Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci, o.p.

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clicking on this short video produced by the Roman St. Catherine of Siena Province of the Order of Preachers, you will also hear the testimony of Father Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci, o.p.

Dear Readers and friends of The Island of Patmos,

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I expressed the desire to Father Ariel you can type a few days before the great gift of my priestly ordination.

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I thank you for the affection you had in me, attention to my writings, deep prayer with which you have accompanied me up to this stage.

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The 29 June 2019 at 11, in our Roman church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, I will say definitely my "Here I am": with this word answer when I am called by the ordaining bishop.

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My collaboration with the magazine It began providentially thanks to the availability and estimated that always the father and Jorge Ariel Facio Lynx have expressed.

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I thank the Lord for these months writing, in various articles and in homiletics and are increasingly happy to continue writing to try to help every player, every boater web, and also the simply curious, to tap into those sacred truths taught by faith transmitted by the Church, alas, They seem to be a little’ left out today by the Catholic culture.

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Father Gabriele Giordano visiting the tomb of Santo Domingo de Guzman Father at the Patriarchal Monastery of San Domenico Bologna

A few days ago I went at the patriarchal convent of San Domenico in Bologna, where there is also the splendid Ark, the tomb of the Holy Father Dominic de Guzman. I stopped more than a few moments to pray to ask the intercession of my loving Father Founder for my future priestly ministry.

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At the same time I pray for each of you: It gave, in its invisible Trinitarian Missions, grant you a very strong light of grace to contemplate the mysteries contained in the sacred pages and embody it in environments where you live, in your little newspaper in the family, or for religious and priests who read, also in your parishes and communities. The Lord has for each of us a larger project: written in our hearts, It is for us to just discover it and then put ourselves at your service.

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Patriarchal Monastery of San Domenico in Bologna: ark containing the remains of St. Domingo de Guzman

This project But it is not something that creates alienation from ourselves: rather it is instead what makes us fully ourselves. It makes us fully released in freedom; not by chance, of the necklace Editions The island of Patmos bears the motto "Truth sets you free». This phrase of St. John the Evangelist: "You know the truth and the truth will set you free [GV 8, 32] It is in fact enclosed our vocation and our apostolic mission.

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A tal fine, as small jays on the wind of the Holy Spirit, It is up to each of us to remember those holy truths taught by the church and imitate the gestures of the saints who have gone before. Really then you will implement the message of Jesus, "I say this, that your joy may be full".

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Dominican vocation and the particular charism of the preaching of the Gospel [Click on the image to open the vocational page]

Similarly the Roman Pontiff Francis, Bishop of my diocese, that always asks all, I ask you to continue to pray for me: it to be, with God's help, a holy priest. A minister who, beyond the personal defects and limitations which always return, He knows how to be the one who gives the Holy, hence the etymology of the word priest means: one who offers to God for sacred things. So the one who knows how to give Jesus in the sacraments, in particular the Eucharist and Penance, giving all its truth affection deeper agapic.

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Maria, our mother, support us and protect us always with that motherly love with which always and forever, He has kept the community of believers.

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Dear Readers, friends and curious, thanks for everything.

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In Christ the Lord and in San Domenico

Gabriele Giordano

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sweet Jesus, Jesus love [St. Caterina da Siena]

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Rome 25 June 2019

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12 replies
  1. Luigi Saruggia
    Luigi Saruggia says:

    Still a sincere wish from Milan.

    That the Holy Father Dominic, St. Caterina da Siena, St. Thomas Aquinas and all the saints and blesseds of the Order of Preachers support you and accompany you every day of your life.
    God bless you, or you who are, to use the words of Poet, “the lambs of the holy flock, Dominic leads on the path, the 'well one fattens if stray“.

    Luigi Saruggia
    lay Dominican
    brotherhood of Santa Maria delle Grazie
    Milan

  2. father ariel
    Don Paolo Ferrini says:

    Dear Father Gabriel,

    the 29 I'll be at the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii with a group of pilgrims.
    S will celebrate the. Mass at 9.30 in one of the chapels and invite the congregation to pray for you.
    The Lord filled with every grace.

    Don Paolo Ferrini
    Frat. Sac. Dominican

  3. father ariel
    Gunter (Innsbruck) says:

    Reverend Father Gabriel,

    I am a movie lover like you.
    I would like to, that you know, I've enjoyed your homilies related to the cinema.
    I read and translate the Italian language, But I do not write and I do not speak Italian.
    Forgive me, if I send you my best wishes in my mother tongue.
    God grant you a long and holy priestly ministry.

    Gunter
    Presbyter of Innsbruck

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    N.d.R. Trad.. German Italian

    Reverend Father Gabriel,

    Like you I am also passionate about film.
    I want you to know that I liked your homilies in relation to the cinema.
    I read and translate the Italian language, I do not write and does not speak Italian well.
    Forgive me if I send you my best wishes in my mother tongue.
    God grant you a long and holy priestly ministry.

    Gunter
    Priest Innsbruck

  4. father ariel
    Don Severino says:

    Dear father

    Angola greetings.
    in our homeland, we miss the presence of the Dominicans!
    Many years ago, I studied at the University Angelicum.
    congratulations, brother.
    I always read your articles.

    Don Severino

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    N.d.R. Trad.. Portuguese / Italian

    Caro Father

    My greetings from Angola.
    in our homeland, we miss the presence of the Dominicans!
    Many years ago, I studied at the Angelicum (From Rome).
    Congratulations, brother.
    I always read your articles.

    Don Severino

  5. father ariel
    luis.romemail@ says:

    Dear father,

    we are three seminarians of the Pontifical North American College of Rome.
    We will be present.
    God bless you and God bless Dominican order.

    John, louis, George

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    Ed. Trad.. English Italian

    Caro Father,

    we are three seminarians of the Pontifical North American College in Rome.
    We will be present.
    God bless you and God bless the Dominican Order.

    John, louis, George

  6. father ariel
    Mario Trasciatti says:

    Caro Father,

    Saturday 29, My wife and I will be at the Minerva for his ordination.
    In certain circumstances it is difficult and sometimes inappropriate to approach people, but since we Romans and we can go when we want, There will be then after also how to greet her later.
    Meanwhile, our congratulations,

    Anna and Mario Trasciatti

  7. father ariel
    Father Juan Pablo says:

    Reverend Father,

    Heartiest congratulations on the sacred ordination of a confrere of priest of the Archdiocese of Medellin (Colombia).
    I am a reader from Isola di Patmos 2016.
    I pray for you the Blessed Virgin Mary, because to pray for the good of the Church we are better than the Argentineans !!!

    Father Juan Pablo
    Medellin

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    N.d.R. Trad. Spanish Italian

    Reverend Father,

    Sincere congratulations for ordination by a fellow priest of the Archdiocese of Medellín (Colombia).
    I am a player from the island of Patmos 2016.
    I will pray for you to the Holy Virgin Mary, because to pray for the good of the Church we are the best of the Argentineans !!!

    Father Juan Pablo
    Medellin

    • father ariel
      Don Andres says:

      Is not true!
      We have taught us to pray Argentina, and you have not yet learned.
      You're a very sympathetic priest.
      The greeting from Rome, I'm finishing my studies and I live in the College Spanish.
      Congratulations to Dominican Father Gabriel !

      Don Andres

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      N.d.R. Trad.. Spanish Italian

      Is not it!
      We've taught us to pray Argentines and have not yet learned.
      You're a very nice priest.
      Greetings from Rome, I'm finishing my studies and I live in the Spanish College.
      Congratulations to the Dominican Father Gabriel!

      Don Andres

  8. Elena Panzeri
    Elena Panzeri says:

    Dearest Father, God bless and infuse all the courage it takes to persevere. We need priests like you infinitely. Certainly I will pray’ for his mission as a man and consecrated, do the same for us.

    • Manuela Fadda
      Manuela Fadda says:

      May God make haste saint, traveling around the world and to bring back the souls that you are losing mass.
      Smack!

  9. father ariel
    Don Angelo Rossit says:

    Dear Father Gabriel,

    … time has come!
    It will be an hour eternal, because you, like all of us, you will be a priest forever.
    There are hundreds of kilometers from Rome and pastor of two parishes, but are you certain that my prayer, the 29 c.m. It will be all for you.

    • father ariel
      Don Francesco Saverio says:

      From Piedmont a deep and sincere wishes for the new priest, original and appreciated journalist and preacher on this happy island of call for many who are increasingly looking desperately Catholic Gospel words, in the general intoxication of “new words”.
      A prayer of intercession to St. Mary Help of Christians.

      Don Francesco Saverio (Torino)

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