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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Fr. Juan Diego Brunetta, O.P., was invited to preach at the 35th annual Rosary Sunday celebration in Phoenix, Arizona. Below is a story from The Catholic Sun, the newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix, chronicling the event.
By Gina Keating | Oct. 13, 2010 | The Catholic Sun
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Several months ago, I was praying the rosary with a group of Providence College students outside the Planned Parenthood Clinic in downtown Providence. Sometime in the middle of the rosary - I think that we were praying the third sorrowful mystery - a car pulled up alongside us. The driver - a woman - showed us an obscene gesture before driving off.… » More
A Dominican Soul is a soul of light whose rapt gaze dwells in the inaccessible splendor wherein God conceals Himself. It lives with Him by faith, is in the company of the Three Divine Persons, a true child of God, adopted through grace into the very Family of the Trinity. The invisible world becomes familiar to it; it pursues its way on earth in intimacy… » More
The foundation of the Catholic Church in Ohio can be found in Somerset, Ohio. There, in the early 19th century, Fr. Edward Dominic Fenwick sent his Dominican brothers from Kentucky to establish the first Catholic Church in Ohio -- St. Joseph's in Somerset. From that first seed, other Catholic Churches sprang up, including St. Patrick in Junction… » More
For centuries, the Dominican Order has encouraged devotion to the Rosary among the Catholic faithful.
A good example of this noble tradition, our late brother Fr. William Hinnebusch, O.P. composed an article on the Rosary's history for the New Catholic Encyclopedia.
Click here to learn more about this Dominican tradition and beloved Catholic… » More
The following article by Fr. Michael Monshau, O.P., a professor of Liturgy, Homiletics and Spirituality at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) in Rome, was published in the February 10th English edition of L'Osservatore Romano. It is reprinted here with permission.
Family Life and Lent
by Fr. Michael Monshau, O.P.… » More
During today's General Audience address, Benedict XVI recalled the life and example of our Holy Father Dominic. In his remarks, the Pope explained how Dominic's apostolic zeal was sparked, among other things, by the theological and spiritual plight of the Albigensians of early thirteenth-century France, and how his answer to this problem was to provide… » More