the
TRUMPET
LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR
“If I am going to
die then I am going
to die, but I am
not going to kill
my baby.”
a quarterly newsletter of the
Dominican Foundation
Dominican Friars
Province of Saint Joseph
PROVINCIAL
Fr. Brian Mulcahy, O.P.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Fr. Kevin Gabriel Gillen, O.P.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Rev. Br. Cassian Derbes, O.P.
DIRECTOR/COO
John Lacorazza
PLANNED GIVING
Diana Kilarjian
MARKETING/IT
Barry Clark
EDITOR
George Goss
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FRIARS FOR LIFE: MIRACLE ON EAST 68TH STREET
Fr. Dominic Langevin, O.P.
Dear Friends,
P
ope Francis’ motto, Miserando
atque Eligendo, “Lowly but
Chosen,” reminded me about a
revolutionary strategy a baseball
team came up with, in choosing
undervalued players, to make a
winning team. Billy Beane, the
general manager of the Oakland A’s,
and a young, untested Yale-trained
junior executive named Peter Brand
set aside the assumptions that had,
for decades, determined the way
baseball talent was assessed. Brand
asked a pair of elemental questions:
what wins games? Answer: scoring
runs. And what makes scoring runs
possible? Answer: getting on base.
Therefore, he concluded, if you want
to win games, you have to acquire
players who have a knack for getting
on base, through hits, walks, getting
struck with the ball, etc. He had
developed a metric for determining
precisely who had that ability—
and found that, more often than
not, baseball executives and scouts
Fr. Sylvester Willoughby, O.P.,
who is 92 years young
overlooked or undervalued those
very players.
Pope Francis’ motto indicates that
he does not see himself as a great intellectual theologian or philosopher
like the two previous popes. But he
does know that he has been chosen
by God to bring people back home
into the Church. I recently had the
opportunity to meet with Master
Bruno Cadoré, O.P., and he struck
me as a very humble and joyful man
who will bring many souls home to
heaven. Thank you for being part
of the Dominican team, it is only
because of fans like you that we continue to have a winning season.
Sincerely,
Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P.
Dominican Foundation • Dominican Friars, Province of Saint Joseph • 2
These were the faith-filled words of
a young mother to her doctors.
Married, C ]