2019 YEAR IN REVIEW Dominican Young Adults Help in Aftermath of Hurricane Maria In this issue... Connecting Tomorrow’s Caldwell DYAUSA Remembering Dominicans, Today Stamp Out Despair Sr. Pat Brady, OP ...and more! Partners in Mission A donation program for those who believe the Future of our Church begins with an Investment. 6 DYMUSA’s director reflects on the life of CATCH THE FIRE S. Patricia Barady, OP (1939-2019) MAGAZINE 20 DYA in Puerto Rico help in the atch the Fire Magazine is aftermath of Hurricane Maria produced for participants, Calumni, and friends annually by the Dominican Youth Movement USA. Its goal is to provide news and information about the Dominican Youth Movement USA’s participants, staff, alumni, and friends. We welcome your comments, Veritas St. Rose of St. Martin de St. Catherine St. Dominic suggestions and stories! Please email us at [email protected]. Level Lima Level Porres Level Level Level $10.00/month $15.00/month $20.00/month $25.00/month $50.00/month A donation such as this A donation such as this A donation such as this A donation such as this A donation such as this will assist with registration will assist with registration will provide transportation will provide a scholarship will provide a scholarship fees for one student to one fees for one student to one for one student to our one students to attend one for two students to attend MANAGING EDITOR of our programs. of our programs. programs. of our programs. our programs. Sr. Gina Fleming, OP 24 Almost 15 students commit to WRITERS become Dominican Young Adults S. Gina Fleming, OP at annual Vespers service Barbara Kelley, OP 27 We invite you to join our Partners in Mission Sean Puzzo 2017-2018 Dominican Volunteer program and change a life today! PHOTOGRAPHY reflects on his 2nd year of service Sean Puzzo DYMUSA obtains its funding from several areas: grants, private foundations, individual donations, and fundraising activities. This however does not cover all our program expenses. S. Gina Fleming, OP S. Barbara Schwarz, OP Partners in Mission are benefactors who pledge monthly contributions to help fund the programs of the Dominican Youth Movement USA. Current Partners in Mission have found DESIGN this program more convenient than traditional giving - with no repetitive checks to write Sean Puzzo CONTENTS or mailing involved. The Dominican Youth Movement USA will receive all the money you 2019 YEAR IN REVIEW designate for its use and be able to count on your monthly contribution and as a result be able to budget more effectively. All the money raised through the Partners in Mission program are 5 DYA Lessons and Carols 25 distributed to help fund the financial needs of the programs. There is no greater Sr. Gina Celebrates 25th Jubilee gift than investing Address comments and questions to 8 We invite you to partner with us and aid in continuing to make these programs “life changing” Connecting Tomorrow’s experiences for our young people who in turn will “change the world.” in the future of [email protected] Dominicans, Todays 26 Come and See - IDYM 2020 Dominican Youth Movement USA our Church! 555 Amityville Avenue 14 We also will gladly accept one-time donations! Donate Today. B7! That’s Heaven! 26 Friendly Faces of New Molloy Amityville, NY 11701 College Campus Ministers For more information or to sign up visit www.dymusa.org/donate or 15 Caldwell DYA Stamp Out Despair contact us at [email protected]. General Information www.dymusa.org 2 | CATCHTHEFIREMAGAZINE [email protected] CATCHTHEFIREMAGAZINE | 3 (631) 842-6000 ext. 308 DIRECTOR’SLETTER Dominican Young Adults Enjoy “Rejoice...For unto you a Child is born ...And He shall be called Emmanuel “Lessons and Carols” at Amityville Motherhouse ...God is with us” “...one of the most enriching and enlightening experiences a member of Dominican Young Adults can hope to have.” Dear Friends, Certainly, Christmas is a time for rejoicing in the many blessings that we have already received and for those yet to come. We here at the DYMUSA have much to rejoice about! This is the DYMUSA’s fifth year as an organization, and we are experiencing an Lessons exciting time of growth. One needs only to look at the page opposite this letter to and Carols see what has happened over this past year! My heartfelt thanks goes out to our Board is celebrated members, our Partners in Mission and donors, our most recent corporate sponsors, each December our college/university campus ministers, our high school campus ministers, the many at the Motherhouse congregations that support us and of course the many young people who participate in of the Sisters our programs. Yes, indeed God has been with us in each and every one of you. of Saint Dominic of Amityville. The sisters, I thank each and every one of you for your support, encouragement, and good wishes associates, friends, family, this past year. As we continue to prepare ourselves to once again welcome the Savior Dominican Young Adults, and many more are invited into our midst, may you know the peace and joy that he brings. to this yearly tradition. Have a joyous Christmas season, and may the New Year bring you all that you need! Prior to the service, members of the Molloy chapter of Dominican With sincere appreciation, Young Adults USA spread the Christmas spirit throughout the halls of the Motherhouse caroling to S. Gina Fleming, OP. those who wouldn’t be able to make it Executive Director to the service and celebrate with sisters. DYMUSA A member of Molloy’s DYAUSA chapter, reflected on the day saying, “visiting with the sisters is one of the most enriching and enlightening experiences a member of Dominican Young Adults can hope to have.” In this busy time of the year it’s seems far too easy to forget the true meaning of the Advent and Christmas season. The young adults felt the visit “provided them with new perspectives on the Advent season.” “I know that I often have an incredibly hard time finding myself in the contemplative and waiting attitude that is often associated and talked about with the Advent season. The sisters encouraged us to contemplate the true meaning of Christmas from differing perspectives and go out of our way to do something kind for those in need.” All in attendance enjoyed fourreflections and carolswhich ended in a joy filled rendition, with bells in hand, of “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.” The Christmas spirit was felt by all! 4 | CATCHTHEFIREMAGAZINE CATCHTHEFIREMAGAZINE | 5 Sister Pat Brady, OP was an educator par excellence and a tremendous visionary. After many years as a teacher and administrator in our Dominican schools, and being a pro-active educator, Pat realized that our schools, which at one time were completely staffed by sisters, now had very few if any sisters on their faculties. She also realized that in the years to come, the number of sisters would dwindle until the faculties were completely staffed by lay teachers. The question came to her, “Who would teach our students about the Dominican charism? Who would pass on our rich history to the next generations of students who attended Dominican High Schools?” Pat decided to begin a new venture with our Dominican High Schools. In 1999, she invited all the Dominican High Schools to send representatives (both faculty and students) to what she called a “pilot program” to introduce the Dominican charism to high school students. The people. Pat was intricately involved in the evolution conference would be held in Chicago and would last for of this program and became the chairperson of the first a week. Ten schools decided to attend. Thus began “The Dominican Volunteer USA board of directors. Dominican High Schools Preaching Conference” that Some years after the Dominican HS Preaching has been serving our Dominican High Schools and their Conference was begun, Pat saw another need. Our students for the past 21 years. Dominican High Schools, which had evolved as Pat had During this time there was a movement to create a anticipated, needed to have an organization that could volunteer organization that would focus on Dominican help educate and train the growing lay administrations ministries and allow the young volunteers to live in and faculties. So together with the sponsoring community with professed Dominican sisters. So, from congregations of our high schools and the sisters who the former Apostolic Volunteer program, which was a were still in administrative positions in those schools Pat Sinsinawa Dominican venture, came the newly formed help found what is currently known as the Dominican Dominican Volunteers USA. This was another way to Association of Secondary Schools or DASS. Pat was continue to pass on our Dominican charism to our young the initial director of that organization and held that position for at least 5 years. Yes, Pat Brady lived and breathed DOMINICAN life. It was in her blood. Recently when I visited her during the 2019 High School Preaching Conference held in Adrian, Michigan, she spent the time telling me what still needs to be done … and exactly how I was to do it!! I will miss her enthusiasm, her great sense of humor, but most of all her WISDOM! Yes, the Order has lost a great Dominican but those of us who were mentored by her will Remembering Sister Patricia Brady, OP do our best to carry on her FIRE FOR THE CHARISM! Sister Gina Fleming, OP 1939-2019 Executive Director, Dominican Youth Movement USA 6 | CATCHTHEFIREMAGAZINE CATCHTHEFIREMAGAZINE | 7 YPWSPOTLIGHT Connecting Tomorrow’s Dominicans, Today Sponsored by the Sisters of Saint Dominic of Amityville, NY, the 2019 Youth Preaching Workshops excitedly welcomed twenty-nine new “Youth Preachers” to our ever growing Dominican Family.