January 23, 2014March 15, 2020Dominican Life, Dominican Saints Blessed Henry Suso: Making Suffering Praise When some people hear of cloistered nuns who are “free for God alone,” they imagine that somehow these nuns “turn their back […]
September 8, 2013December 12, 2017Dominican Life, Enlosure, Marian Consecration Silence, Our Lady, and the Pope(s) Yesterday we united in fasting and prayer with our Holy Father Pope Francis and the universal Church for peace in Syria and […]
May 8, 2013December 12, 2017Dominican Life, Marian Consecration, Prayers Consecration of the Dominican Order to Mary Today, May 8, we celebrate the feast of the Patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary over the entire Order of Preachers. “From […]
January 16, 2013April 11, 2018Dominican Life, Vocation Letters Vocation Letters: Why Cloistered Dominicans? The following is a letter to a fictional young woman discerning a Dominican monastic vocation. It is the second in a series […]
September 23, 2012December 12, 2017Dominican Life Good Soil for the Word Recently one of our chaplains gave a homily on the parable of the sower, in which the good soil receives the seed […]