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Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues:

A happy new year to you I send you and yours
and all your loved ones! prayerful good wishes for
Be assured of the prayers the new year and heartfelt
thanks for all that you did
of all the Friars of the for the Dominican
Province of St. Joseph for Foundation in 2009.
a healthy and holy 2010.
Thank you for letting the Please join me in paying
Dominican Foundation continue calling on you tribute and offering
for spiritual and material support. Many gratitude to Father Farren
challenges await—and the Province simply for his leadership of the
could not function if it weren’t for your Foundation these past
years. A daunting task
unflagging commitment to our common awaits his successor.
cause. Happily, in the meantime,
we can rely on the
May the Lord give us the strength, courage stewardship of our
and faith to ceaselessly serve Him and His Provincial, Fr. Dominic Izzo,
Church—each of us according to our own O.P., who has played a
specific calling and competency. It is on this crucial role in our work all
score that I am also writing you with some along. You will be hearing
from him as the year gets
personal news today. underway and many of you
will have a chance to meet
My health has not been stellar of late. with him in person soon.
Medical tests, recuperation and doctors’ visits
are taking up an increasing part of my time. Sincerely in Christ,
My energy often flags. In short, the
enormous demands that come with heading
the Dominican Foundation have been proving
too much for me. Accordingly, I have asked to Ray Clark
be relieved as the Foundation’s Director, President
Dominican Foundation
effective with the start of this new year, a few
months earlier than the natural conclusion of
my term in June. Our Provincial, Father
Dominic Izzo, O.P. will serve as interim
director, overseeing the daily operations of
the Dominican Foundation and meeting with
many of you in the next few months. My
formal successor will be appointed at the next
Provincial Chapter to be held in June.
I am filled with gratitude for all that the Please Support the
Foundation has accomplished during my Dominican
years at the helm. With God at our side, all of Foundation
us—the Friars, and you, our dear lay
supporters—have achieved milestones that Please consider
were just a dream not all that long ago. contributing to the
Dominican Foundation
For starters, I need only mention last year’s today. Because of the
completion and dedication of the new generosity of our
Academic Center and Theological Library at friends, w e’ve been able
the Dominican House of Studies in to do so much. But this
Washington, D.C. Together we have laid the can only continue if
foundation for the accomplishment and Catholics like you
continued growth of the Province’s mission continue to step out in
for decades ahead—foremost, the formation faith and generously
of new generations of Friars, who will literally contribute.
fan out across the world as preachers,
confessors and teachers. Your good works will
live on!

Be assured that Father Izzo and the Province

will continue to stay in close touch with
you. Like you have so generously allowed

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before, I know that we can continue to call on
you for help.

I would be remiss in this, my final electronic

message to you, if I did not urge you one final
time to visit our Website and do so often.
That way you will keep up with all the news
of the Province—especially if you also sign up
to receive our alerts every time a new item of
interest is posted online (you will be invited
to do so by submitting your email when
prompted).

Visit today and you can sample the Christmas

homilies that were delivered at St. Vincent
Ferrer Church on Manhattan’s Upper
Eastside. You will also find a photo essay and
message in gratitude and tribute to your
generosity in 2009.

Know that you will remain in my prayers

always.

Sincerely yours,

Fr. John Farren, O.P.

For the Dominicans
Province of St. Joseph

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