The local television station WHIZ “the WHIZ” TV in Zanesville, OH recently interviewed Fr. Jordan Turano, OP, pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas Church, on the meaning and importance of Holy Week. A portion of that video can be seen below. Here is the article from WHIZnews.com, speaking with Fr. Jordan about Holy Week.
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On Friday, March 20, Fr. Joseph Alobaidi, OP, spoke to the parishioners of St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Zanesville, OH. Fr. Alobaidi spoke on the topic “Women and Marriage in St. Paul”. His talk was one in a series of talks at St. Thomas in celebration of the Year of St. Paul. Additional lectures will [...]
This past January 28th, nearly 150 people gathered at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer to celebrate the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas and to hear Professor Robert Louis Wilken deliver the parish’s second annual St. Thomas Day Lecture. One couple shared that they traveled from Colorado and made the lecture part of their anniversary [...]

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Fr. John Corbett, O.P., Assistant Professor of Moral Theology, preached a memorable homily during the Solemn Liturgy for the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas in the chapel of the Dominican House of Studies. The homily starts about 2.5 minutes into the video. Father’s homily is followed by the chant schola singing “In Medio Ecclesiae,” the [...]
Forty years ago, on July 25th, 1968 - feast of St. James the Greater - Pope Paul VI published his Encyclical letter Humanæ Vitæ. Pope Paul VI indicated the purpose of that letter in the first two paragraphs:
The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly [...]
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Fr. Richard J. Neuhaus ( Editor in Chief, First Things) , Fr. John Farren, OP (Director of Advancement, Dominican Province of St. Joseph), and Angelo Matera (Publisher and Editor, Godspy.com) reflect on the Pope’s recent apostolic journey to the USA, focusing particularly on his messages to American Catholics, American non-Catholics, and American [...]
Fr. William Bonniwell, O.P., one of our deceased brothers (1886-1984), was not only a famous historian of the liturgy, but also served as a military chaplain in World War I. Watch this fascinating interview of Fr. Bonniwell about his service (conducted by Fr. Antoninus Wall, O.P. of the Western Province), filmed in 1982 at [...]
The French city of Toulouse is the cradle of the Dominican Order. It was in Toulouse and its surrounding towns that St. Dominic and the first friars began to live their new evangelical life as mendicant preachers. Their importance for the city of Toulouse can be measured by looking at the magnificent medieval Dominican church [...]
Below is a short video montage of photos from the Christmas Mass during the Day at the Priory of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. The celebrant for the Mass was His Excellency, Archbishop Thomas Cajetan Kelly, OP, recently retired after more than 25 years as Archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky. Archbishop Kelly’s last [...]

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After decades of sectarian conflict and bloodshed, Protestants and Catholics recently came together for a special evening in Dublin, Ireland to celebrate what unites them: The Birth of Christ. Hosted and narrated by Liam Neeson, Andrew T Miller’s The Birth of Christ musically brings the Gospel of Luke to life, and revivifies the passion, unity, [...]
Posted in Video, Washington, D.C. on December 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
A Christmas Carol (3 min 33 sec) In Suso’s biography it was written: Now this same angel came up to the Servant [Suso] brightly, and said that God had sent him down to him, to bring him heavenly joys amid his sufferings; adding that he must cast off all his sorrows from his mind and [...]
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The Third Sunday of Advent is known popularly as Gaudete Sunday. The name comes from the first word of the Mass in Latin: Gaudéte in Dómino semper: íterum dico, gaudéte (Missale Romanum 2002), which is taken from St. Paul’s letter to the Phillipians (Phil 4,4) and translates as “Rejoice in the Lord always; [...]
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Rev. James Cuddy, OP, introduces Joseph and Michael Campo.
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On the Catholic Exchange website, Br. John Chrysostom Kozlowski, OP, has the first in a series of reflections for the Advent season. In addition, Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP, has the first video installment, also available on the Catholic Exchange website. There is also a video link-up below.
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Br. John Chrysostom’s reflection.
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The filmmakers at Catholic Exchange have a multi-award winning DVD, Champions of Faith: Baseball. a groundbreaking film that showcases the intersection of sports and faith in Major League Baseball by profiling many of the most accomplished and devout figures in the game both on and off the field. Major League baseball champions Mike Piazza, David [...]
On June 2, 2007, the Dominican friars of the Province of the Holy Name of Jesus (Western Province) ordained four men to the priesthood. Shortly before their ordination, they interviewed three of them about their vocations: Fr. Jerome Cudden, OP, Fr. Michael Hurley, OP, and Fr. Vincent Kelber, OP. They’ve edited those video [...]
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New Medium Offers Pro-Life Sound Bites
FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, NOV. 13, 2007 (Zenit.org).- YouTube has been a great boon to the nonprofit community because with it, a video can be instantly available anywhere in the world, says media producer Colin Mason.
Mason, director of media production for the Population Research Institute (PRI) in Front Royal, spoke to [...]
Below is a short slideshow (in .WMV format) of some of the photographs from the All Saints Vigil held here at the House of Studies on October 31, 2007. The music in the background is taken from the Vigil. It is our schola cantorum singing the Beatitudes, according to Slavonic chant.
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Leo Severino, the Producer of the movie Bella, attended Mass today with some of our Dominican Sisters and asked us for prayers that the film will be able to go into the major cinemas. Both Leo Severino and the star of the film Eduardo Verastegui are friends of the Dominican Sisters of Mother Mary of [...]
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Video (8 min 30 sec) Our brothers Hugh Vincent Dyer, O.P., and Thomas Joseph White, O.P., were ordained to the Order of Deacons. The Mass of Ordination was in the Priory chapel. The ordaining prelate was Most Rev. Edwin F. O’Brien, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, formerly Archbishop of the Archdiocese of the Military [...]
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 – 1:30 p.m. St. Catherine of Siena Church, 411 e. 68th St. New York, NY 10021 sponsored by the The Dominican Friars Health Care Ministry ~ Saint Catherine of Siena Church and Priory “Stem Cells in Healing The sick Ethical Dilemmas ~ Ethical Possibilities” William B. Hurlbut, M.D. See [...]
Listen to Dominican Brother Austin Litke, OP, discuss how Pope Benedict approaches the Our Father in his new book, Jesus of Nazareth on Word to Life, the weekly radio show on the Sirius Satellite Network’s Catholic Channel (Sirius 159). Fr. Dominic Legge, OP, is the host for this show that aired on July 27, [...]

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Our Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia are being blessed with many vocations.
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The Good Morning America show did a report on our Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.
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The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, also known as Pontificia Università San Tommaso d’Aquino or the Angelicum, is one of the major pontifical universities of Rome.
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Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P., a Dominican friar of the Eastern Province, speaks about Humanae Vitae and parish preaching. (Video 19 min.) of a talk given at the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C. on June 18, 2007.
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(10 min video) Fathers James Cuddy, O.P., Dominic Legge, O.P. and Allen Moran, O.P. were ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Donald Wuerl at St. Dominic Church, Washington, D.C.
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While serving at St. Mary’s in New Haven I’ve come upon several interesting stories. This video is an excerpt (5 min) from EWTN’s Life on the Rock in which three Yale Bulldogs speak about living their faith on campus and St. Mary’s Church.
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Video (57 min) of a lecture by Fr. Kurt J. Pritzl, O.P., entitled “Contemplation and Truth when Made in the Image of God: Aristotelian Reflections in Post-Modern Times.” Given at the Dominican House of Studies on April 12, 2007. Fr. Pritzl serves as Dean of the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America.
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(3min. video) The Dominican friars in the traditional monastic Holy Week liturgy commemorating the death and burial of the Light of lights, punctuated by the haunting melodies of the Lamentations of Jeremiah as sung on the lips of Jesus Christ weeping over the lost children of Jerusalem.
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Br. James Brent with Cardinal Avery Dulles and Br. Bruno M. Shah
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Short interview with Br. James Brent, O.P. on the recent conference (2mins 37 secs)
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The Marian Role in the Restoration of the Image of God (Video 49 mins.) by Rev. John Corbett, O.P. Assistant Professor of Moral Theology Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C.
Father John received his doctorate at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, studying with the noted moralist Servais Pinckaers, O.P., and writing a dissertation on the [...]
“Charity’s Knowledge: The Relationship Between Knowledge and Love in Aquinas’ Account of Human Action” (60 min. Video) presented by: Michael S. Sherwin, O.P., is Associate Professor of Fundamental Moral Theology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is the author of By Knowledge and by Love: Charity and Knowledge in the Moral Theology of St. [...]
(Talk: 48 mins Q & A: 9 mins) FR. PETER JOHN CAMERON, O.P., (Editor-in-Chief of MAGNIFICAT) explains the importance of Dominican preaching for the New Evangelization whereby the preacher speaks directly to people’s hearts in order to lead them to an encounter with Christ. Fr. Cameron gave this talk to 27 men during the [...]
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Video (46mins. lecture 20 mins Q&A) “What Can the Human Genome Project Tell Us about What it is to be a Human Being?” Thursday, February 1, 2007 Presented by Rev. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P. Assistant Professor of Biology and Instructor of Theology at Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island. Consultant to the Committee on Science and Human [...]
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Follow the March for life (18 mins. 32 sec.) with the Dominican Friars, it was shot on the ground at the March from inside the moving crowd. It includes the personal testimony of many Dominican Friars, Sisters, CFR’s, Renewal Sisters, pastors, campus ministers, college students, and youth.
For example, hear from Br. Dominic Legge, OP about [...]
In this video (12 mins.) Fr. Juan-Diego tells us about his ministries as a canon lawyer, retreat work, Youth 2000, the Third Order and his experiences of preaching and religious life.
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Father Michael shares his vocation story and his first assignment at St. Gertrude Parish and School. (3 mins 47 sec)
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If you have an ipod, iphone, AppleTV or just like using iTunes on your computer, our video’s and audio podcasts are now available for free in iTunes. The videos are much clearer than the flash version and keep an amazing quality even if you expand it to the full screen. Just click on the iTunes/podcast [...]