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Brother Dominick Jean, OP, has started a newsletter centered on growing in virtue and in holiness. Expect video, audio, and written content from him ranging from cultural commentary to spiritual reflections.

A blessed Feast of St. Catherine to you all! May we be transformed like Catherine was into the living fire that is our Triune God. "I long to see you so totally ablaze with loving fire that you become one with gentle First truth. Truly the soul's being united with and transformed into him is like fire consuming the dampness in logs. Once the logs are heated through and through, the fire burns and changes them into itself, giving them its own color and warmth and power."

15 Tuesdays in Honor of St. Dominic Our dear sisters, the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia (AKA the Nashville Dominicans), in honor of the 800 year anniversary of St. Dominic's death are sharing with all of us reflections and meditations on how we might better imitate our Founder and his life of prayer and zeal for God. Tune into these reflections each Tuesday leading up to August, the Feast of St. Dominic https://www.youtube.com/watch

Br. Hoang preaches on the Second Reading for the 4th Sunday of Easter. In the Second Reading for this Sunday we hear about what it means to be in union and relationship with God. God calls us to become not merely servants but his very own children. Dare we enter into that relationship?

Br. Peter Lewitzke, OP, preaches on the First Reading for the 4th Sunday of Easter When we stand up and preach about our Faith who is it we are speaking about? Whom do we preach? Often we preach ourselves and an image of God in our own image. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles shows us the way though. Peter knows the one whom he preaches and whom all the Apostles preach and his name is and must always be Jesus.

Are we willing to let Christ into our lives so that he might touch and heal our most intimate and damaging wounds. The leper in our Gospel desires Jesus enough that he is willing to let Jesus intimately touch him. Can we do the same? Can we allow Christ into our lvies so that he can save us from our brokenness?

Dominican Vocations Novena (Day 8): Bl. Jordan of Saxony was the second Master of the Order and a great promoter of vocations. In preparation for our Come & See Weekend, please join us these days in praying for Dominican vocations. We at St. Dominic Priory in St. Louis ask you to pray especially for the men God will call to be Dominican friars in the Midwestern and Southern United States. Thank you, blessings upon you. (Composed by Fr. Raymund Snyder O.P.) ... https://opeast.org/2014/02/blessed-jordans-preaching/

Dominican Vocations Novena (Day 7): Bl. Jordan of Saxony was the second Master of the Order and a great promoter of vocations. In preparation for our Come & See Weekend, please join us these days in praying for Dominican vocations. We at St. Dominic Priory in St. Louis ask you to pray especially for the men God will call to be Dominican friars in the Midwestern and Southern United States. Thank you, blessings upon you. (Composed by Fr. Raymund Snyder O.P.) ... https://opeast.org//blessed-jordan-and-the-salve-processi/

Dominican Vocations Novena (Day 6): Bl. Jordan of Saxony was the second Master of the Order and a great promoter of vocations. In preparation for our Come & See Weekend, please join us these days in praying for Dominican vocations. We at St. Dominic Priory in St. Louis ask you to pray especially for the men God will call to be Dominican friars in the Midwestern and Southern United States. Thank you, blessings upon you. (Composed by Fr. Raymund Snyder O.P.) ... https://opeast.org/2014/02/the-tomb-of-holy-father-dominic/

Dominican Vocations Novena (Day 5): Bl. Jordan of Saxony was the second Master of the Order and a great promoter of vocations. In preparation for our Come & See Weekend, please join us these days in praying for Dominican vocations. We at St. Dominic Priory in St. Louis ask you to pray especially for the men God will call to be Dominican friars in the Midwestern and Southern United States. Thank you, blessings upon you. (Composed by Fr. Raymund Snyder O.P.) ... https://opeast.org/2014/02/blessed-jordans-vast-catch/

How is that we don't have any written homilies of St. Dominic himself? What makes the enduring legacy of a great preacher? Br. Peter explores the lasting impact of the Gospel witness of the Sacra Praedicatio (The Holy Preaching) as he preaches on 1 Thessalonians 1: 5-10 during Evening Prayer for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "You know what sort of people we were among you for your sake"

Dominican Preaching: Right To Life We're proud to announce that Br. Adrian Patrick McCaffery will be addressing the SLU Students for Life on Embryonic Personhood TOMORROW at 6:00 pm. Br. Adrian is an ordained deacon, and is teaching & finishing a PhD in Philosophy at SLU. In defending embryonic personhood, he stands in the proud Dominican tradition of speaking up for some of the most marginalized & imperiled members of the human family. Please pray that his words may bear abundant fruit!

Dominican Discernment: Come & See Weekend Here are a few highlights from our Come & See Weekend which just finished. Praise God we were able to bring 20 young men into our Priory safely and with safety precautions. If you or someone you know is interested in discerning with the Dominicans, check out some of the pictures and talks from the weekend on our website, Friarly.... Holy Father St. Dominic, pray for us! https://www.friarly.com/come--see-weekend.html

The love that Jesus calls us to in the Gospel today encapsulates all our beliefs as Christians. This love is not an emotion, but an action of self-gift, of Agape-style love. The love we are called to looks like the Cross, it is Crucified Love.

"The Rosary: A Monstrance in Your Pocket" October is the month dedicated, by the Church, to the Most Holy Rosary! At Night Light, a Eucharistic holy hour offered on the campus of the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Br. Matthew Paul Grote, O.P. offers a reflection on the connection between the rosary and the mystery of the Holy Eucharist. The reflection is followed by one decade of the rosary. Br. Matthew Paul is a student brother of the Central Province of Saint Albert the Great, on his Pastoral Year at the University of Saint Thomas. Please keep him and all of our brothers in your prayers, as you are in ours!

Please offer a Memorare for our discerners who will attend the Come and See Weekend beginning this Friday. At St. Dominic Priory and Studium in the garden is a ...statue of St. Dominic with a staff and book. St. Dominic, while in Rome to meet the Pope, had a vision one night where St. Peter and St. Paul appeared to him and authorized him to preach with apostolic zeal and authenticity, symbolized by St. Peter's staff and St. Paul's book. They also gave him this commission: "Go and preach, for to this ministry you are called!" St. Dominic and Holy Mother Mary, Pray for us! #OPsouth #FriarLife #Friarly #Vocation

Even in the midst of a pandemic, God continues to call young men and women into religious life. Here at St. Dominic Priory, while we will be taking precuations such as masks and social distancing, we will be hosting 20 young men this weekend who are discerning their vocation. But these young men need your prayers.

Br. Jordan preaches on St. Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians on the importance of being steadfast and faithful in following God's call, seeing the journey as hard work, but marked by hope in knowing that God is with us. "Remembering you in our prayers, unceasingly calling to mind your work of faith and labor of love and endurance in hope"

"Pay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God." The words of our Gospel should haunt us because everything has as both its source and its final destination God himself. At the end of the day, everything belongs to God. But do we live like that? Readings are for Cycle A

Pray for the Dead: Today we received word that a member of the Province of St. Albert the Great, the Dominican Central Province, died this morning after a long fight with COVID-19 and the complications which arose from that disease. That friar’s name was Fr. Jim Karepin, O.P. Fr. Jim was a bi-ritual priest in both the Roman Catholic Church and the Ukrainian Catholic Church. He was known to be a man of great humor, who brought laughter, jokes and puns with him wherever he wen...t. In your mercy, please offer a prayer for him and for all those harmed by this pandemic. He goes now to his rest in the Lord. Requiescat in pace, fratre.

Daily Dominican Preaching: We are called to be leaven for the world through our prayer and our action. But often we are afraid, we allow what others might think of us to throw us off and to distract us. Fr. Patrick reminds us today of those beautiful and comforting words from Pope St. John Paul II, "Be Not Afraid!"... https://anchor.fm//Be-Not-Afraid--October-16--20/a-a3idfe7

One of our brothers here in St. Louis, Fr. Patrick Baikauskas O P, recently interviewed a member of the Dominican Laity in Indonesia about his ministry of evangelization. Check it out here!

Carmel Cookies for St. Teresa of Ávila’s feast day tomorrow! Live and bake liturgically! #friarly #friarlife #GreatFriarBakingShow