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
Click on the slideshow above for highlights of the liturgies celebrated at the Dominican Priory of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. from Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday.
This year, Fr. Brian Mulcahy, O.P., the Socius and Vicar of the Prior Provincial, was given the special grace of being invited to celebrate the Sacred Triduum with the community of cloistered Dominican Nuns at St. Dominic's Monastery, which is located near Linden, VA, atop the Shenandoah Valley's beautiful Blue Mountain. Here below you will find… » More
HOMILY OF POPE BENEDICT XVI
Mass of the Lord's Supper
April 1, 2010
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In his Gospel, Saint John, more fully than the other three evangelists, reports in his own distinctive way the farewell discourses… » More
Click here and here for audio of the Easter homilies preached at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer in New York City.
As is the case every year, the Easter Vigil was the highlight of St. Vincent's celebration of the Triduum. The Exultet, the triple Alleluia, the renewal of baptismal promises---all of these once-a-year observances helped us to hail… » More
"Something strange is happening - there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and He has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles… » More
Fr. Gabriel O'Donnell, O.P., the Academic Dean of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, delivered the following homily during the Mass of the Lord's Supper celebrated at the Dominican House of Studies.
The Mass of the Lord's Supper, the Church tells us, celebrates Our Lord's institution of the Eucharist and the beginning of the… » More
Silent. Bare. Empty. For a Dominican Friar accustomed to entering the priory chapel throughout the day, every day, the change is striking. Our Lord has been taken from us, seized, as it were, from the garden. The Bridegroom's friends fast on this day.
If you arrive in choir early, you can watch the Friars as they enter and go to their choir stalls.… » More
May the peace and blessings of God be with you and your loved ones as we enter into these culminating days of Holy Week known as the sacred Easter Triduum, which encompasses Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, in which we commemorate the entirety of the salvific events of the Paschal Mystery - Our Lord's Passion, Death and Resurrection.… » More