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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">To my surprise, our Mass for Scientists on the Feast of St. Albert the Great has gotten international attention:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/11/10/gold-mass-for-scientists-to-be-celebrated-for-the-first-time/">http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/11/10/gold-mass-for-scientists-to-be-celebrated-for-the-first-time/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If you google “MIT Gold Mass”, you’ll see a number of similar articles, which basically reprint an article in the Boston Archdiocesan newspaper:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=177861">http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=177861</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">All of which attention is nice, but it’s nicer if we make an effort to attend the Mass and invite other scientists to come for Mass:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">When: TODAY, Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 5:15
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Where: MIT Chapel, with reception to follow in W11.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Who: celebrated by Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P. (PhD ’96), Professor of Biology at Providence College.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">(St. Albert the Great is a Dominican theologian, bishop, and doctor of the Church, whose work defending the compatibility of faith and scientific investigation makes him one of the precursors to modern science,
and earned him the status as patron saint for scientists. His feast day is Nov. 15.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Fr. Daniel Patrick Moloney, Ph.D.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Catholic Chaplain, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">MIT Building W11-012</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">40 Massachusetts Ave. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Cambridge, MA 02139</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">617-252-1779 (office)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">617-910-0463 (mobile and text)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><br>
</span><a href="mailto:dmoloney@mit.edu"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:blue">dmoloney@mit.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><br>
http://</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">tcc.mit.edu</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">blog: spiritualdirections.tumblr.com/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">DONATE: http://tcc.mit.edu/www/donations.html</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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