Preacher’s Sketchbook: Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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...
Birth of St John the Baptist

VOICE LESSONS – in the Desert: Birth of St. John the Baptist

I share these reflections for the Birth of John the Baptist from a monastery of contemplative Dominican nuns in Spain – just one of the many monasteries of our nuns around the...
Nativity of John the Baptist

Preacher’s Sketchbook: The Nativity of St John the Baptist

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...
Blessed Sacrament

‘Adoro Te Devote’ - Eucharistic Adoration in the Spirit of St Thomas Aquinas

Some of the best loved Eucharistic hymns - Adoro Te Devote, Tantum Ergo, Panis Angelicus - were written by one man, the Dominican friar St Thomas Aquinas. The Dominican friars of St...
Timothy Radcliffe

Spirituality for Today, Suffering and Healing

Father Timothy Radcliffe OP argues that a spirituality of suffering should not seek to explain what the person is enduring. First we must be with them, as Mary and the beloved disciple...
The crucifixion

The Sacred Heart and St. Dominic

“O Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like unto thine.” Today, on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Catholics throughout the world are making this...
Wojciech Giertych

On ‘Pange Lingua’ Fr. Wojciech Giertych, OP (Papal Theologian)

As part of the 'Adoro Te Devote' series being held in St Saviour's Church, Dublin, as part of the 50th International Eucharistic Congress, the Theologian to the Papal...