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The Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Joseph have preached Christ for the salvation of souls for over 800 years. Founded by St. Dominic and rooted in the Gospel and Sacred Tradition, our mission is to proclaim the truth, teach the Faith, and form hearts in holiness.
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Fr. John Baptist Hoang, O.P., chaplain at the University of Louisville, celebrated the Baccalaureate Mass for seniors of the UofL Catholic community.
Wishing all the recent graduates and current student students a restful and grace-filled summer!
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📸 UofL Catholic
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Meet Fr. Raphael Arteaga, O.P., one of our newly ordained priests!
Fr. Raphael Arteaga was born in Providence, Rhode Island and raised in the city of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Fr. Raphael’s parents, both born in Colombia, South America, were committed to providing a Catholic education to him and his sister, which helped to feed the Catholic faith passed on at home. From a young age he found himself growing in wonder at the Holy Mass and by extension, the priesthood.
Yet, it was not until he met the Dominican Friars at Providence College, where he earned his Bachelors of Arts in Theology in 2019, that he began to think about religious life in conjunction with the vocation of the priesthood.
“Not only did I have the Dominican Friars in class and as my chaplains, but I also had the unique experience of being a porter for the priory on campus for all four years of college.
It was the experience of the multi-generations of friars residing and working at Providence College that I saw the true grace that works within the Dominican religious life under the patronage of Saint Dominic and the Blessed Mother.
It was the joyful and fraternal witness of my older brothers in religion that made me desirous of the same joy and fidelity of life in Jesus Christ.”
Ordained to the priesthood of Jesus Christ on May 23, 2026, Fr. Raphael is completing his Licentiate in Sacred Theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. Please keep him in your prayers!
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📸 Paula Paiva — Fr. Arteaga with his parents after celebrating his First Mass at Misión San Andrés in Silver Spring, MD.
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Meet Fr. Pius Henry, O.P., one of our newly ordained priests!
Fr. Pius was born in Reading, Massachusetts, where he attended Reading Memorial High School. During those years, he had the opportunity to travel to South America three times with his home parish on mission trips and worked with the poor. After high school he attended The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. to study theology.
While there, he encountered the Order of Preachers through classes taught by Dominicans. Inspired by the Thomistic tradition and the clear presentation that was rooted in a deep contemplative prayer life he entered the order in 2019.
“Having received the fruits of Dominican preaching and teaching the Holy Spirit led me to the order so as to cooperate in the Dominican charism of preaching for the salvation of souls and to give to others what I myself have been so blessed to receive.”
Ordained to the priesthood of Jesus Christ on May 23, 2026, Fr. Pius' first assignment will be at the Parish of St. Vincent Ferrer & St. Catherine of Siena in New York City. Please keep him in your prayers!
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📸 Kendall McLaren — Fr. Pius gives a blessing to his parents on the day of his ordination to the priesthood
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God wants to sanctify your emotions.
The emotional life that we all have is something that grace can sanctify. Our Lord shows us that the affective life is not something to be ashamed of, it's not something to chagrin, because it's a part of what it means to be human.
—Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P.
Watch Fr. Cuddy's homily for the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vklJe...
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📸 Roy DeCarava — "Self-portrait" (1956)
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Happy Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus!
“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 petition. Our Lord Jesus was, of course, preeminently meek and humble, but, we may wonder, what other virtues are we asking for in this short prayer? In what other ways do we desire our hearts to be “like unto his”? I would suggest that the life of our Holy Father Saint Dominic can help us find an answer to this question.
Dominic, far from keeping sinners at bay, welcomed them into his heart and made of them an integral part of his prayer and contemplation. In his nightly vigils, he could often be overheard asking the Lord, “What will become of sinners?” Not only in his prayer, but also in his relationships with others, he was known for this solicitude: “All men were swept into the embrace of his charity, and, in loving all, he was beloved by all.”
Saint Dominic challenges our notion of what it means to have a pure heart, and it is a truly Christian challenge. His embrace of sinners is the manifestation of an authentic imitation of Christ. To be pure of heart is to have one’s heart so closely conformed to the Sacred Heart, that his concerns become ours.
We do not need to search the Gospels for long to discover that Our Lord carried the concerns of sinners and the afflicted in his Sacred Heart: “At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd” (Matthew 9:36). Here, in the Gospel and in the life of Saint Dominic, we find one more gift we might obtain by asking our Lord, “Make my heart like unto thine.”
—Fr. Raymund Snyder, O.P.
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📸 Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P. — "Most Sacred Heart of Jesus"
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While addressing members of the Spanish Parliament, our Holy Father Pope Leo XIV said, "The defense of human life is neither a partisan issue nor a confessional interest: it is a goal of civilization. Every human life must be recognized and safeguarded from conception to its natural end, in every circumstance of its existence."
We invite you to join us as we continue to build a culture of life in the United States of America and beyond.
Thanks to a generous matching gift campaign, every donation made to our Friars for Life campaign by June 30 will be matched dollar-for-dollar. Your generosity today will echo in the lives of countless individuals tomorrow. Click here to learn more and donate today: dominicanfriars.org/friarsforlife/?utm_source=YouT…
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Photos from Corpus Christi Sunday at a few parishes in our province: St. Patrick Catholic Church in Columbus, OH, St. Dominic Church in Washington, D.C., and St. Barnabas the Apostle Church in Bellmore, NY.
O God, who in this wonderful Sacrament have left us a memorial of your Passion, grant us, we pray, so to revere the sacred mysteries of your Body and Blood that we may always experience in ourselves the fruits of your redemption.
Who live and reign with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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Congratulations to the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception Class of 2026!
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If there is one Dominican saint who wants to be your friend, it is St. Pier Giorgio Frassati.
While the Church raises up saints as models because of their “heroic virtue,” Christians can learn from St. Pier Giorgio how virtue is practiced in ordinary ways, like the witness of joy or simply a smile.
St. Pier Giorgio (1901-1925) was a magnetic character, attracting a wide circle of devoted and loyal friends. Reading their letters to each other when he died suddenly at age 24 reveals just how much they were captivated by him: by his teasing, his antics, his kindness–and especially by his faith.
His faith was nurtured, in no small measure, by the witness of the Dominican Order. He made his profession as a Lay Dominican in 1922, at the young age of 21. St. Catherine of Siena–another Dominican known for cultivating a circle of devoted followers–inspired him, and he avidly read her Dialogue, a lengthy conversation between her and God the Father on Divine Providence. He also undertook a systematic study of St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica. St. Pier Giorgio often carried a 15-decade Rosary, praying it loudly while walking around his hometown of Turin, Italy.
St. Pier Giorgio continued to inspire his friends after death. As Clementina Luotto wrote in a letter two days after his death, “He will give us the active love we ought to have, above all because he gave us the priceless gift of his friendship. Let us cling to the cross and love each other in his memory as if and more than if he were still with us. Perhaps that way we shall see his smile shine among us again.”
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The month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus!
We cannot refuse to give our hearts away, nor can we harden our hearts in preemptive defense. Both choices are self-defeating and leave us without the vitality we set out to protect. There is only one path forward—to give our hearts generously to men and women who we know will not take care of them, and to bear the wounds that inevitably follow.
In this very action we are made like Christ—for what is the essence of the Sacred Heart except to be pierced by those He loved, and loved until the end? Bleeding and wounded with swords wielded by those whom we love with Christ’s love, to whom we have not hardened our hearts nor refused the gift of ourselves, our hearts become like unto His.
—Fr. Hyacinth Grubb, O.P.
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