Our Ministries
Our Dominican mission of preaching for the salvation of souls is lived out by friars in a wide variety of ministries. Animating each of these ministries, however, is an intense love of God, a strong commitment to the truth, and a burning zeal for the salvation of souls.
OUR MINISTRIES
Flowing from Dominican Life
Dominican ministry flows out of the common life of prayer, study, and fraternity shared by the Dominican friars. This common life is a furnace of divine light and love, which strengthens the friars as they go forth into the world to preach.
The friars of our province serve as university chaplains, professors, parish priests, hospital chaplains, itinerant preachers, and digital evangelists. Our ministries include parishes, campus ministries, a university, a pontifical faculty of theology, a nationwide network of campus chapters, and media apostolates with national and international reach.
OUR MINISTRIES
Flowing from the Dominican Life
Dominican ministry flows out of the common life of prayer, study, and fraternity shared by the Dominican friars. This common life is a furnace of divine light and love, which strengthens the friars as they go forth into the world to preach.
The friars of our province serve as university chaplains, professors, parish priests, hospital chaplains, itinerant preachers, and digital evangelists. Our ministries include parishes, campus ministries, a university, a pontifical faculty of theology, a nationwide network of campus chapters, and media apostolates with national and international reach.
OUR MINISTRIES
Building Up the Church
In addition to the good of each individual ministry, the presence of our communities often have a positive cumulative effect upon the life of local dioceses. We promote more frequent access to the sacraments, reverent liturgy, sound preaching and faith formation, and missionary discipleship. Our communities serve as a source of spiritual vitality that benefits the wider diocesan community.
We also serve as seminary professors and spiritual directors, canon lawyers, preachers offering retreats and missions for other local ministries, and hosts for retreats or penance services for local diocesan clergy. A number of dioceses have benefited from vocations to the diocesan priesthood that were fostered by local Dominican ministries.
OUR MINISTRIES
The Care of Souls
Dominican friars have been involved in university life since the time of St. Dominic, and the friars of our province currently serve as chaplains for campus ministries at 10 universities, including the University of Virginia, Dartmouth, New York University, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Providence College, and the Catholic University of America. For over 200 years, the Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Joseph have served in parish ministry and we continue to provide for the care of souls in 18 parishes. Friars also serve as hospital chaplains, high school chaplains and theology teachers, and military chaplains.
OUR PARISHES
The Care of Souls
Dominican friars have been involved in university life since the time of St. Dominic, and the friars of our province currently serve as chaplains for campus ministries at 10 universities, including the University of Virginia, Dartmouth, New York University, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Providence College, and the Catholic University of America. For over 200 years, the Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Joseph have served in parish ministry and we continue to provide for the care of souls in 18 parishes. Friars also serve as hospital chaplains, high school chaplains and theology teachers, and military chaplains.
OUR MINISTRIES
The Charism of Truth
The study of sacred truth is an essential part of Dominican life, and Dominican preaching and teaching involves sharing the fruits of our contemplation of the saving truth of Jesus Christ. The Dominican intellectual life is imbued with the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, who serves as a sound guide for the integration of faith and reason in pursuit of truth.
Dominican friars in our province serve as professors at the Pontifical Faculty at the Dominican House of Studies, the Catholic University of America, Notre Dame, Providence College, the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, and a number of diocesan seminaries.
The Pontifical Faculty at Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC provides intellectual formation for the Dominican friars of our province and other students. It also hosts the annual conference for the Academy of Catholic Theology and is home to the Thomistic Institute.
The Thomistic Institute hosts conferences and intellectual retreats for university students. It also brings the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas to over 100 college campuses, in the U.S. and abroad, through its nationwide network of campus chapters. The Aquinas 101 podcast and other digital content from the Thomistic Institute now reaches millions of people annually throughout the US and worldwide.
Dominicans are known for their love for books, and the friars of our province continue to write and edit many academic and popular books as well as producing and contributing to academic journals such as The Thomist and Nova et Vetera.
Through a variety of intellectual apostolates, the Dominican friars are promoting a renewal of Catholic thought in the United States and internationally.
OUR MINISTRIES
Itinerant Preaching, the Rosary, and National Apostolates
St. Dominic went from town to town proclaiming the Gospel and instructing people in the fullness of the truth. The friars of our province continue to offer retreats, days of recollection, conferences, and missions, both for the ministries which have been entrusted to us and at the request of a wide range of other ministries.
The Blessed Virgin Mary entrusted the Rosary to the Order of Preachers. The friars of our province annually host the national Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage, drawing thousands of pilgrims from across the country to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. We also promote the Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary and the Angelic Warfare Confraternity.
Throughout the history of the Dominican Order, we have often provided valuable support and guidance to other communities and apostolates. Today, the friars of our province serve as chaplains for national apostolates such as the Knights of Columbus and FOCUS.
OUR MINISTRIES
Media Evangelization
St. Dominic and his brothers sought to preach the word of God in every pulpit, town square, university center, and mission field. Throughout the history of the Order of Preachers, Dominicans have embraced new forms of media to reach souls with the saving truth of Jesus Christ. Today, in addition to print and radio, the friars use various forms of digital media to evangelize the newest mission field: the digital continent.
Friars of our province produce written, audio, and video content reaching millions of souls each year, including the Dominicana blog, podcasts such as Godsplaining, Aquinas 101, and Contemplata, and the Gospel-infused bluegrass music of the Hillbilly Thomists.
Our friars also serve as editors for national Catholic media apostolates, including Magnificat, Our Sunday Visitor, and Aleteia English, host the Word to Life show on the Catholic Channel on XM Radio, and have regularly contributed to EWTN, Ascension Presents, Catholic Classics, Pints with Aquinas, and the Knights of Columbus’ Catholic Information Service.
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