The friars are members of the Order of Preachers, AKA "The Dominicans" and we are members of the Eastern Dominican Province. There are many… » More
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The Dominicana online edition has now implemented an email subscription feature: Dominicana Digest. Once a week, excerpts from the most recent posts on Dominicana will be sent to subscribers to the Dominicana Digest. You may subscribe using the form on the righthand column of the Dominicana, or by clicking here.
Recent posts on Dominicana include reflections on adventure and exploration, the ability of Christians to use language such as "my God", and the relationship between wonder and truth. You may also be interested to see blogs run by Dominican student brothers from other provinces, including the Central and Southern Provinces, the Western Province, and the English Province.
On September 14, 2011, the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross, the Dominican student brothers launched a new initiative under the aegis of the studentate publication Dominicana: a daily blog which will feature short articles on matters of timely and timeless relevance, from science to Scripture, literature to liturgy, politics to prayer, or anything… » More
The website CollegeGuide.org, published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, recently released a report titled "Rating America's Colleges" that evaluates institutions based primarily on the criteria of "how well (or badly) a school does at providing the classic 'liberal education' suited to a free citizen and a well-rounded adult." In this report, Providence College was ranked as their "#7 Exceptional School."
Providence College was founded by the Province of St. Joseph in 1917. Dominican Friars serve the college as faculty, campus ministers, and administrators. Earlier this month, two recent graduates of the college completed their Novitiate and have been assigned to the Dominican House of Studies, continuing a long tradition of PC Alumni joining the Order of Preachers.
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Dominican preaching flows from the studied pursuit of wisdom and the orchestrated repose of contemplation. With the friar's life accordingly organized, his otherwise mundane endeavors of observation and speech increase in spiritual attunement. More and more, he desires to see all things clearly and deeply, and he is better disposed to speak authentically… » More