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Each week, a Dominican member of the Provincial Preaching Advisory board prepares this Preacher’s Sketchbook in anticipation of the upcoming Sunday Mass. The idea of the Preacher...
Like Holy Father Dominic, St. Hyacinth (ca. 1185-1257, feast – Aug. 17, patron of those in danger of drowning) was a canon. And like St. Dominic, a journey with his bishop...
There's a legend that all twelve of the apostles were present when Mary was assumed into heaven. After her Assumption, they went out again to preach the Gospel to all corners of...
The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 15 August; also called in old liturgical books Pausatio, Nativitas (for heaven), Mors, Depositio, Dormitio S. Mariae. This feast...
The month of August brings us the family of Dominic. On August 2nd, we celebrated Bl. Jane of Aza, mother of St. Dominic. On August 8th, we celebrated the great solemnity...
More than 800 years ago At the time when the church Was in its darkest period in history A man of noble ancestry Refused all earthly riches and pleasures And set out on a mission...
“Critics were almost entirely complimentary to what they were pleased to call my brilliant paradoxes; until they discovered that I really meant what I said” Thus writes G....
Why does Bl. Fra Angelico so frequently depict Our Holy Father Dominic (1170-1221, feast – Aug. 8, patron of all priests of religious orders) at the foot of the Cross? After all...
