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Sometimes the path will mean that we lose something or someone close to us. Sometimes we may have to put others first. Read more...

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Fr. Carl B. Trutter, O.P. Fr. Carl died on March 25, 2020, in New Orleans, LA. Read more...

What can save us from this separation and death? For God so loved the world that He sent to us his only begotten Son. Read more...

Br. James Martin Nobles, O.P. preaches during Vespers on Ezekiel 37:12-14 for the Fifth Sunday in Lent. Brother James Martin exhorts us to let the Light of Christ into the darkness of our lives, and reminds us that hope can always find us. Click to view...

May the God who loves us and weeps with us, unbind us and set us free so we may enter more fully into our Lenten observances of prayer, almsgiving, and fasting which in turn, will lead us to a deeper union with Jesus. Read more...

His wisdom, his preaching, his healings, his demonstrated love for others -- all justify a positive verdict. Read more...

“Jesus answered them,I told you and you do not believe.” Read more...

In the breach, Moses is wrestling with God, like his ancestor Jacob before him, with all his heart, fiercely, with the resolve and even stubbornness of someone who has given his whole life to the cause ahead. Read more...

Mary guarded an empty space within her being to be filled by God through her YES. She received the Word into her heart. Read more...

In today’s Gospel, Jesus poses a significant question, “Do you want to be well?”  While directed particularly to the catechumen, this question is also significant for all who seek to renew their baptismal grace at Easter. Read more...

Seeing our sins in the fresh light of Lent, we may have gone to confession or reached out to someone to ask them for forgiveness. Yet, the guilt remains. Read more...

Brother Carlos Salas, O.P. preaches during Vespers on 1 Corinthians 3:16-23 for the Fourth Sunday in Lent. Brother Carlos asks us what we do in the midst of unprecedented uncertainty. Click to view...

Lent is a summons. Summoning us to look at the reality of suffering, disappointment, grief, and our culpability in these. Such a summons begs a response. Our response is to see the suffering and to act on it. Read more...

One would expect that the religiously observant Pharisee who avoids vice would be justified rather than the Tax Collector. Read more...

The gift of special Indulgences is granted to the faithful suffering from COVID-19 disease, commonly known as Coronavirus, as well as to health care workers, family members and all those who in any capacity, including through prayer, care for them. Read more...

God not only longs for our love; he begs for it. From Hosea to the Gospel, God reveals again and again that he longs to enter into communion with us and to be the source of our abundance. Read more...

Last words can be significant. My dad’s were usually, "Remember, you’re a Wieloszynski." It didn’t matter whether we were going out to play, to school, to church, to college, his loving concern followed us in hopes that we would stay out of trouble, do our best, and not betray the values he and Mom instilled in us. Read more...

In religious life, as well as family life, this challenge to Christian living becomes apparent. Once, after a particularly bad fight in our family, my father reminded me that, “In families, we judge others for their actions, and we judge ourselves for our intentions,” – justice for others, mercy for myself. Read more...

See what's happening around the Province: Martin's Bread Ministry, Gratitude Events, The New Orleans Gala, A Vocations Update, The Dominican Laity of Memphis, and an Interview with Charlotte Crusta.