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The Dominican novitiate is the house of religious formation for the novices (first year in formation to be a Dominican Friar) under the direction of the novice master. The novitiate for the Province of St. Albert the Great is located at St. Dominic Parish in Denver, Colorado.
After a man discerns his vocation to the Dominicans, the Order of Preachers, with the vocation director, he completes the application process and after he is accepted to enter the Order, he enters a one-year period of initial formation as a novice. At the end of the novitiate year and after much discenment and approval by the local Dominican community and the prior provincial, the novices profess simple vows and move to the next phase of their initial formation and begin their formal graduate studies at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri. The professed brothers live at the studentate there and continue their formation for the next five to seven years.
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The Dominican novitiate is supported by the Colorado Domincan Vocation Foundation.