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 Diocese of Providence, RI, has featured a regular "Midweek Spiritual Refresher" during Lent. Towards the end of Lent, the Diocese featured the preaching of Fr. Ken Letoile, the pastor of St. Pius V Church in Providence.
View the talk above by Br. Sebastian White, O.P., entitled Wondrous that Tree: The Cross in Poetry. The holy and penitential season of Lent impels us to dwell upon our own sinfulness and need for redemption, and most importantly, the saving death of Christ on the Cross. Can poetry assist us in our prayer and observance of Lententide? In sooth, it… » More
Please join our Dominican Friars at the Priory of the Immaculate Conception (the Dominican House of Studies) as they worship God in the Liturgies of Holy Week. The Priory of the Immaculate Conception is located at 487 Michigan Ave., NE, Washington, DC 20017.
Passion (Palm) Sunday, April 17, 2011
11:15 am - Mass with procession
Wednesday of… » More
Immediately at the beginning of the liturgy this day, the Church anticipates her response to the Gospel, saying, "Let us follow the Lord." With that the theme of Palm Sunday is clearly expressed. It is about following. Being Christian means seeing the way of Jesus Christ as the right… » More
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, God and the World
Faith is always a path. As long as we live we are on the way, and on that account faith is always under pressure under threat... they can only mature by suffering in you, at every stage in life, depression and the power of unbelief, by admitting its reality and then finally going… » More
Watch the video above as Fr. Peter John Cameron, O.P. (Editor-in-Chief of the American edition of Magnificat) concludes a Lenten On-Campus Retreat at Columbia University.
Watch the video with Br. Boniface Endorf, O.P. giving a talk on Flannery O'Connor's fiction and how it portrays the effects of Christ's Passion and Man's Redemption in this shockingly real world. This talk is a part of the "Passion of Christ" Conference given by our brothers at the Dominican House of Studies.