Friar News & Articles

Dust from the Lalibela churches’ restorations points to something about the relationship between the earthly and heavenly. Namely, that the dust we know so well amid pain and suffering and sin, has a place in heaven.

With a sad, yet hopeful heart, we announce that Fr. Alfred Wilder, OP, passed away on Tuesday, February 4, 2025.

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Jordan embraced the constitutions and rules that governed the Order, helping to establish greater internal stability by codifying its practices. He did all this for the sake of furthering the preaching of the Good News.

Today is the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church. He was born in the Kingdom of Sicily around 1225. As a child, he began his schooling at the Benedictine abbey in Monte Cassino. Often, young St. Thomas would question his teacher in his search for truth, asking, "Master, tell me—what is God?”

St. Albert the Great is the patron of the novitiate house of the Province of St. Martin de Porres. Through his prayers, may our Dominican novices gain knowledge of God and deepen their devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.