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Kansas City HNS Day of Recollection |
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KANSAS
CITY, MO
2-1-2011
On
Saturday, January 8, the men of St. Vincent de Paul Church in
Kansas City, MO were privileged to receive a visit from
Dominican priest, Fr. Albert, for a day of recollection.
Sponsored by the Holy Name Society at St. Vincent’s, this
event allowed the 35 attendees to experience a small sample of
the Dominican charism during the event’s two conferences.
After the opening conference on the subject of confession, the
partial day of recollection allowed the men to attend Mass
celebrated according to the Dominican Rite, enjoy a lunch and
social hour, and attend a second conference before ending with
Benediction, including recitation of the Litany of the Holy
Name of Jesus and the Holy Name Pledge. |
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Fr. Albert gives a
conference
during the day of recollection
sponsored by the HNS |
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During the
first conference, Fr. Albert elaborated on the matter and form of
the sacrament of confession. The matter of confession is twofold:
1) remote matter being the sins themselves, and the proximate
matter being the actual acts of the penitent (confession,
contrition, and satisfaction for sins confessed). The form of the
sacrament is found in the absolution of the penitent. Advice given
to the men regarding confession included elaborations on the
following points: 1) The penitent should confess the sins that
weigh on his conscience most, 2) a sin that a penitent tries to
“hide” will always reappear in the future; because of the Seal of
Confession, the best way for a penitent to “hide” a sin is to
confess it, 3) the penitent should choose approximately 5-6 sins
to confess; this will show the confessor the penitent’s “face” as
a sinner and enable the confessor to give appropriate admonition
and advice, 4) the penitent should confess acts, and not
mere tendencies. |
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Fr. Albert
used the second conference to educate the men on some lesser
known facts about the gradual resurgence of Modernism in the
public Catholic forum by the mid-1940’s and the combat waged
against it under Pope Pius XII, most notably by Dominican
theologian, Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange. Attendees learned
about Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange’s article, titled “The New
Theology, Where Is It Going?”, the subsequent controversy
sparked by this article in 1946, and how this controversy led
to Pope Pius XII’s encyclical
Humani Generis in 1950 (which was
likely influenced by Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange). Fr. Albert also
recommended the book Our Dominican Life by Fr. F.-D.
Joret, O.P. |
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Fr.
Garrigou-Lagrange |
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