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from the Monastery of the Precious Blood

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Rev. Robert Pagliari, C.Ss.R., Ph.D. has dedicated his life to the Redemptorist mission for more than 50 years. His ministries include: parish administration, teaching, extraordinary preaching and editing manuscripts for a number of publishers.

As a professor, he has taught in-person and online courses for undergraduate and graduate students at universities and seminaries in New York, Virginia, Florida, Connecticut and Louvain, Belgium where he served as chairman of the homiletics department at the American College. Pagliari has earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy, master's degrees in speech, psychology, theology, and religious education, and an earned doctorate in Human Communication.

Currently, Father Pagliari is the chaplain at Precious Blood Monastery in Brooklyn serving the cloistered nuns of the Institute Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará.  He also teaches communication and theology courses at St. John’s University in Queens, NY and writes a Holy Homework monthly column for the newspaper of the Archdiocese of New York.

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