Letter from the Director
Dear Friend,
“If you live today, you breathe in nihilism...
it’s the gas you breathe. If I hadn’t had
the Church to fight it with or to tell me
the necessity of fighting it, I would be the
stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw
right now.” --Flannery O’Connor
In responding to Jesus’ call to be fishers
of men, it is a challenge to haul aboard
millennials because they have been exposed
to a nihilistic culture that convinces them
that truth is subjective. Relativism is like
a red tide that causes water to become
so depleted of oxygen that fish essentially
drown.
Relativism is like a red tide
that causes water to become
so depleted of oxygen that
fish essentially drown.
Young people today are immersed in these
dark waters as this harmful tide is streamed
into their lives, starving their minds of
reason and causing a disregard for the
givenness of things—an indifference that
leads them to believe that nothing is really
of consequence.
BlackFriars - Volume II, Issue II
This is the ocean in which your children
and grandchildren are now forced to swim.
Saint Thomas Aquinas helps us to turn back
the tide by teaching us that everything is of
consequence, for the Son of God became
incarnate, suffered, and was swallowed into
the belly of the earth to redeem everything!
Because of your generosity, many young
people are being saved from this sea of
secularism. I hope you enjoy reading in this
newsletter about some of the great catches
of souls that you make possible, like the
busloads of college students the friars
bring to the Dominican House of Studies
for the March for Life every year, or the
women and men brought to repentance,
conversion, and healing by Dominican prolife preaching.
Whether we are serving on college campuses,
as Missionaries of Mercy, or in the public
square, the Dominican Friars thank you
for making it possible for us to promote a
culture of life and a return to reason.
Father Gabriel Gillen, O.P.
Executive Director
Dominican Foundation
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