Ash Wednesday: Carry the Fire By Fr. Michael Mary Weibley, O.P. This essay previously appeared in Dominicana and is reprinted with permission. “You have to carry the fire.” “I don’t know how to.” “Yes you do.” “Is it real? The fire?” “Yes it is.” “Where is it? I don’t...
Giving Everything Back to God | Solemn Professions 2025 Two of our brothers, Br. Raphael Mary Arteaga, O.P. and Br. Pius Mary Henry, O.P., recently professed Solemn Vows, fully committing the whole of their lives to God through our Dominican way of life....
Blessed Are You Among Women | The Fourth Sunday of Advent By Br. Jerome Masters, O.P. As we enter into the final 3-day stretch until Christmas, we hear in today’s gospel all the words that are too familiar from St. Elizabeth. “Blessed are you among women and...
Rejoice! | The Third Sunday of Advent By Br. Jerome Masters, O.P. Rejoice! We have made it halfway through this season of Advent, and now the Church has shifted her focus from the second coming of Christ to the first. We hear in the second reading from St. Paul...
Knowing God, Although it is Night By Fr. Bruno Shah, O.P. St. John of the Cross is a mystical doctor of the Church. As a “doctor,” his teaching has comprehensive and universal value. As a “mystic,” his life displays unspeakable secrets of union with God. As a...