The Importance of Loving God with the Mind By Blackfriars Staff You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind (Matthew 22:37). For most people, when going on retreat, the focus is on the movement of the...
Growing in Virtue By Br. Jerome Masters, O.P. In his recent book, Angelic Virtues and Demonic Vices: Aquinas’s Practical Principles for Reaching Heaven and Avoiding Hell, Fr. Basil Cole, O.P., sets out to make the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas accessible to...
Dear Friends in Christ, We have much for which to be thankful! This year we thank God for the ordination of five Dominican friars to the priesthood of Jesus Christ. Throughout their lives each of these men will preach the saving truth of Jesus Christ, baptize,...
A Hidden Ministry By Blackfriars Staff It was 1977 when the steel mills began closing down in Youngstown, Ohio. Since then the city, once a locus of steel in America, lost more than half its residents. That means half the homes are occupied. Half as many...
It’s Eucharistic Revival Time By Blackfriars Staff “What is the Lord about to do in our country? Are we receptive to what the Lord wants to do in this National Eucharistic Revival?” These are questions Fr. Peter Martyr Yungwirth, O.P., pastor of...
Join us for the Second Annual Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage on Sept. 28! The Rosary is central to the life of the Dominican Friars. After all, it was to St. Dominic that Our Lady gave the Rosary as a means to save souls. She asked him to preach her Rosary...