In her book Jude: A
Pilgrimage to the Saint of Last Resort the writer Liz
Trotta speaks of the universality of the devotion to St.
Jude, to which we can certainly attest here at the Shrine.
Each month we receive letters and prayer requests from
countries as diverse as Argentina, Ireland, the Netherlands,
Australia and New Zealand among others. Her are two
former directors -- one of whom hails from Canada -- who
have helped shape that universality.
In 1999, Fr. Reginald
celebrated his 25th anniversary of ordination and
his friends
produced a festschrift (literally, a book of
celebration) in his
honor. In its range of tributes and
remembrances, the festschrift gave a fair
summation of the talents with which God has blessed
him for his work in the Church and in the Dominican
Order. He has honored the Order's
motto to bless, to praise and to preach, one friend
wrote, as "purveyor of chrism, tongue of silver, pen
of grace, gracious celebrant, friar most mendicant"
and much more besides. An advanced degree in
business administration has under girded his service
to the Order as pastor, prior, vicar provincial,
provincial council member and director of
advancement, among other ministries. Today, Fr.
Reginald is director of the Dominican Rosary
Centr, in Portland, Or, but retains his love for the
Shrine of which he was director in the 90's.
"I count those years among the happiest of my
thirty-five year priesthood," he wrote in our
newsletter for the Novena in honor St. Anne, which
he returned to preach last summer. Of the
Novena preaching itself, one attendee wrote to us,
"that was my first Dominican Novena, and the best of
50 years of making them.
Fr. Donald Bramble, O.P.
Feb. 4, 1950 --
Director 1999 - 2000
Fr. Donald was born in Quebec,
Canada and raised in south central Los Angeles.
He attended Daniel Murphy High school
where he got to know the Dominican friars.
After studying at Cal State, Los Angeles, Fr. Donald
entered the Dominican Order in 1970 and was ordained
on June 4, 1976, "thirty-five years and one day
after my uncle's ordination -- Msgr. Keith Bramble"
Our close bond with Fr. Donald was formed when he
held the twin directorships of the Dominican Mission
Foundation and the Shrine. In addition to
California, he has served the Order in Alaska, Utah,
and Arizona, in parishes, in Hispanic ministry,
campus ministry, college teaching, adult education
and, most recently, as pastor of Holy family
Cathedral in Anchorage, AK. Fr. Donald who has
a Master's Degree in psychiatric Social work from
the University of Utah, says "the international
character of the Order, the men and women, lay and
religious, in the Dominican family ... weave a rich
spiritual heritage reaching back to St. Dominic, St.
Catherine of Siena, St. mMrtin de Porres ... who are
all our companions on the road to heaven."
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Thurs
Fri
Sat
1
Saint
Anna
Prophetess
2
Saint
Ingrid
of
Skanninge, O.P.
3
First
Friday
Saint
Gregory
the
Great
4
First
Saturday
Saint
Rose
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Viterbo
5
23rd
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Ordinary
Time
Bl. Teresa
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6
Labor
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Bl. Julia
Stanislava
Rodzinska OP
7
Saint
Regina
8
Birth
of the
Blessed
Virgin
Mary
9
Saint
Peter
Claver
10
Saint
Nicholas
of
Cupertino
11
12
24th
Sunday
Ordinary
Time
Holy Name
of Mary
13
Saint
John
Chrysostom
14
Exaltation
of the
Holy Cross
15
Our
Lady
of
Sorrows
16
Saints Cornelius
and
Cyprian
17
Saint
Robert
Bellarmine
18
Saint
Joseph
of
Cupertino
19
25th
Sunday
Ordinary
Time
20
Saint
Andrew
Kim
Taegon
21
Saint
Matthew
22
Saint
Maurice
of
Africa
23
Saint
Pio
of
Pietreleina
24
Our
Lady
of
Ransom
25
Saint
Finbar
26
26th
Sunday
Ordinary
Time
27
Saint
Vincent
de
Paul
28
Saint
Laurence
Ruiz
29
Archangels
Michael
Raphael
& Gabriel
30
Saint
Jerome
Daily Masses
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nds
produced a festschrift (literally, a book of
celebration) in his
honor. In its range of tributes and
remembrances, the festschrift gave a fair
summation of the talents with which God has blessed
him for his work in the Church and in the Dominican
Order. He has honored the Order's
motto to bless, to praise and to preach, one friend
wrote, as "purveyor of chrism, tongue of silver, pen
of grace, gracious celebrant, friar most mendicant"
and much more besides. An advanced degree in
business administration has under girded his service
to the Order as pastor, prior, vicar provincial,
provincial council member and director of
advancement, among other ministries. Today, Fr.
Reginald is director of the Dominican Rosary
Centr, in Portland, Or, but retains his love for the
Shrine of which he was director in the 90's.
"I count those years among the happiest of my
thirty-five year priesthood," he wrote in our
newsletter for the Novena in honor St. Anne, which
he returned to preach last summer. Of the
Novena preaching itself, one attendee wrote to us,
"that was my first Dominican Novena, and the best of
50 years of making them.
where he got to know the Dominican friars.
After studying at Cal State, Los Angeles, Fr. Donald
entered the Dominican Order in 1970 and was ordained
on June 4, 1976, "thirty-five years and one day
after my uncle's ordination -- Msgr. Keith Bramble"
Our close bond with Fr. Donald was formed when he
held the twin directorships of the Dominican Mission
Foundation and the Shrine. In addition to
California, he has served the Order in Alaska, Utah,
and Arizona, in parishes, in Hispanic ministry,
campus ministry, college teaching, adult education
and, most recently, as pastor of Holy family
Cathedral in Anchorage, AK. Fr. Donald who has
a Master's Degree in psychiatric Social work from
the University of Utah, says "the international
character of the Order, the men and women, lay and
religious, in the Dominican family ... weave a rich
spiritual heritage reaching back to St. Dominic, St.
Catherine of Siena, St. mMrtin de Porres ... who are
all our companions on the road to heaven."