June 7th at 4:40 P.M.

Solemn 1st Vespers

of the Solemnity of Pentecost

Veni Creator Spiritus!

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.

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

May 5, 2024

3:00 p.m.

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. 

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?

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.

Solemn 1st Vespers

of the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord

Solemn 1st Vespers

of the Solemnity of Saint Joseph

O Kind of kings and Lord of lords, my soul embraces you with sorrow and grief in your abjection. Grant that is may be joyfully embraced by you in your eternal brightness…

If God knows me and loves me so completely, then I must be worth knowing and loving.

Homily for the 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Abba Serapion - the biscuit snitcher.

Homily for the 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Aquinas Guild announces its second

Evenings with a Friar:

Fr. Dominic Verner, O.P.

will speak on “Honor and Glory in the Christian Life.”

It is possible for the Lord to always be at the center of our lives and the center of our hearts.

May we always see Jesus with the eyes of faith, like Simeon and like Anna, and may we too be given the grace to live in the House of the Lord all the days of our life and to savor His sweetness.

The purpose of the Guild is to create a closer network of the many friends of the Monastery—new and old—to show our gratitude for their friendship and ongoing solicitude as we live a hidden life in the midst of the Church for the salvation of souls.

St. Thomas’s life and all that he offers to the Church is shaped by his Dominican life.  Through living the Dominican life, he became holy. 

It is in the light of God’s wisdom, as it is in the heat of God’s love, that human beings come to their full flourishing.