Monastery Updates
Annual Rosary Pilgrimage 2025
Sunday, October 5, 3:00 PM
Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe, O.P. will preside.
Homily for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Christ, both priest and sacrifice, invites us to his sacred banquet and himself becomes our food.
Homily for the Feast of our Holy Father Saint Augustine
The first reason for which we are gathered together in community is to live in harmony, having one mind and heart in God.
Homily for the Memorial of Saint Monica: The Efficacy of Intercessory Prayer
Monica prayed for love, because of love – the love of God and the love of her son.
Homily for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Mary’s death was beautiful. It was not surrounded by fear and anxiety; there was no struggle. Rather, when it came time for her to pass from this life to the Father, she literally died of love of her Son.
Evenings with a Friar
The Aquinas Guild announces its third
Evenings with a Friar:
Fr. Ignatius John Schweitzer, O.P.
will speak on
"Little Therese, another 'Preacher of Grace' "
Solemn First Vespers of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of the Christ
June 21st at 4:40 P.M.
Solemn 1st Vespers
of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
O precious and wonderful banquet, that brings us salvation and contains all sweetness! Could anything be of more intrinsic value?
Visit of the Master General of the Order
June 13, 2025
Memorial of Saint Anthony of Padua
The Master General of the Dominican Order
visits Our Lady of Grace
Solemn First Vespers of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
June 14th at 4:40 P.M.
Solemn 1st Vespers
of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
“It will not be out of place to consider the ancient tradition, teaching and faith of the Catholic Church, which was revealed by the Lord, proclaimed by the apostles and guarded by the fathers. For upon this faith the Church is built, and if anyone were to lapse from it, he would no longer be a Christian either in fact or in name.”
God’s Glory and Oneness in Christ
A Homily for the 7th Sunday in Easter
Fr. Brian John Zuelke, O.P.
“I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one” (Jn 17:22). This line from today’s Gospel is the most mysterious statement among many mysterious mentions of “glory” (δόξα) in the “High Priestly Prayer” of Jesus preceding his Passion (Jn 17).
Solemn First Vespers of the Solemnity of Pentecost
June 7th at 4:40 P.M.
Solemn 1st Vespers
of the Solemnity of Pentecost
Veni Creator Spiritus!
Solemn First Vespers of the Solemnity of the Ascension
May 28th at 4:40 P.M.
Solemn 1st Vespers
of the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord
Today our Lord Jesus Christ ascended into heaven;
let our hearts ascend with him.
Evenings with a Friar
The Aquinas Guild announces its second
Evenings with a Friar:
Fr. Dominic Verner, O.P.
will be speaking on:
Honor and Glory in the Christian Life
Series on Saint Thomas Aquinas - Part Three
We too are invited to be servants of the Truth, rather than ones who master it. We too are called to search through all fields of knowledge and see how the different aspects of truth that they highlight can be illuminated and clarified by what is true and comes from the Lord.
Tuesday of Holy Week
Today, at the human level, we are presented with a contrast between Peter and Judas. Why does one find his way back to repentance and forgiveness and the other, it seems, does not?
Homily for Palm Sunday
Today begins the most sacred week of our year, of our lives, as Catholics, this Holy Week in which we, as the Body of Christ, liturgically and sacramentally accompany our Divine Head, our Lord Jesus Christ, though His Passion, Death and Resurrection.
