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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Archbishop Augustine Di Noia, O.P., Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, gave the following reflection during the Eve of the Inauguration of Teresa A. Sullivan, as the new President of the University of Virginia. The prayer service has held at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Charlottesville, last Tuesday… » More
Click above to watch a short history of how Dominicans of this Province have served the university community at Saint Thomas Aquinas Parish in Charlottesville, VA over the last fifty years. Since arriving in 1959, various Friars have helped the parish to achieve tremendous growth. As a sign of that growth, and in order to continue to meet the still… » More
The Catholic Virginian, the newspaper of the Diocese of Richmond, recently wrote an article about the plans for a new Dominican priory to be built next to St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Charlottesville.
St. Thomas Aquinas Parish began in 1943 as a Newman Center established to serve the Catholic presence at the University of Virginia. In 1959, the… » More
This weekend 33 young men visited the Dominican House of Studies to discern a vocation to the Province of Saint Joseph. We ask you to keep these men in your prayers, it's our largest crowd in recent memory; there are two Vocation's weekend given each year. With renovations still underway in the Priory, almost half of the men had to sleep on the floor… » More