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A Special Farewell Letter from the Director
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Dear Friends, Though few are willing to talk about it, the Church is experiencing a great famine of vocations. Last year in the United States, 38 dioceses ordained zero men to the priesthood. In the Dominican Province of St. Joseph,...
Letter from the Director
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Dear Friends, As he lay dying on a hospital bed, I administered Last Rites to Fr. Richard John Neuhaus. A fellow Dominican Friar, Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P., assisted with prayers. Sixteen years prior, almost to the day, Fr. Richard...
Letter from the Director
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Dear Friends, Prostration is a gesture packed with meaning. At Ordinations, the most striking moment is seeing the friars lie prostrate. The fact that the praying Church is calling upon all the saints at that moment becomes...