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Br. Greg Dunn, OP spent the Summer of 2018 working with the Missionaries of Charity in Kenya. Every Tuesday for eleven weeks, Br. Greg will offer a reflection on his summer abroad. Read more...

As part of the formation process of a Dominican Friar in the Province of St. Martin de Porres, the brothers are sent to do social justice ministry. This past summer Br. Carlos Salas, OP was sent to New Orleans, LA, to minister to the poor at the St. Jude Community Center. Read more...

On Monday, August 12, 2019, six young men began their novitiate at St. Albert the Great Priory in Irving, Texas. Read more...

On Saturday, August 10, 2019, Br. Andrew Martin del Valle, OP professed simple vows for two years. Read more...

On Wednesday, August 7, 2019, Br. Greg Dunn, OP renewed his vows for two years. Read more...

Once you become part of a religious order, you no longer belong entirely to yourself. Even before ordination or profession of solemn vows, other people look to you as an example. Read more...

To lay down one’s own life for the sake of others and for Christ is no small thing! Hence, it is not surprising that those in discernment question their worthiness. More often than we’d like to admit, we’ve wondered whether we’re really qualified for this path to which we feel called. Read more...

It stands as a reminder of who we are, whom we serve, and what we are called to do and be. As such, it is a precious treasure of the Order. So, the Dominican historian, Fr. William Hinnebusch, OP says that “its cloth, color, and cut expressed the poverty, chastity, and obedience the friar had promised.” Read more...

The desire to harmoniously combine the contemplative with the active, the monastic with the apostolic, and the cloister with the mission-field is at the heart of what it means to be a “Dominican Friar.” Read more...

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We talk about ministry experience, vocation discernment, the call to communal religious life, thoughts on the current sex abuse scandal in the Church, and much more! Click to listen...

On Sunday, August 12, 2018, we welcomed four novices to the Order of Preachers. Br. Andrew Martin and Br. Justin for the Province of St. Martin de Porres, and Br. Jordan Albert and Br. Dominick for the Province of St. Albert the Great. Read more...

The Dominican Province of St. Martin de Porres has appointed a new vocation director (effective July 2018): Fr. Francis Jose Orozco, O.P. Read more...

Just over five months ago I began my year as a novice in the Order of Preachers. This is a year especially focused on prayer in our Dominican way of life. As novices, we also begin to learn to live a life in community, a life of study, and even a life of preaching! Read more...

“Hindsight is 20/20.” “If I knew then what I know now.” These are phrases that we often hear with a negative context. Usually, they hint at the notion (and the truth) that you can’t change the past or that you made a choice with the best knowledge you had at the time, and it may not have been the right one. But there can be a twist of sorts to our past. Read more...