Ordo Praedicatorum

Fr. Luke Turon, OP, gives a talk on the relationship between St. Paul, his writings, and the Church.  Fr. Luke took his first vows as a Dominican 60 years ago this year.  For most of his Dominican life, Fr. Luke was a missionary in Pakistan.  This lecture was given as a part of the Year [...]

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Fr. Anthony Giambrone, OP, gives a talk on the proper way to understand the Old Testament.  Using especially St. Paul and the New Testament, Fr. Anthony shows how Christ is the hermeneutical key to understanding the full meaning of God’s revelation in the Old Testament.  This lecture was a part of the 2009 Summer Lecture [...]

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This summer, St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Zanesville, OH, is offering a series of summer lectures during the month of July. The lectures will be on the Mondays and Thursdays of July (except July 9).  The talks will be done by friars visiting St. Thomas during the summer:  Rev. Br. James Brent, OP, Br. Justin [...]

This past Sunday the Dominican parish church of St. Thomas Aquinas celebrated the feast of Corpus Christi with a Eucharistic procession through downtown Zanesville. Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, OP was the main celebrant for Mass and the procession. The procession stopped for benediction an an outside altar in front of the parish office building [...]

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 [...]

Recently, The Catholic Times, the newspaper of record of the Diocese of Columbus, published an in-depth story on the Catholic Churches in Muskingum County Ohio, including our own Dominican parish of St. Thomas Aquinas in Zanesville.  The article is reprinted below.
Zanesville’s two parishes have much in common
By Tim Puet
Catholic Times
For more than 165 years, Zanesville [...]

The Zanesville Times Recorder also recently published a story on Fr. Jordan Turano, OP, the recently installed pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas parish in Zanesville, OH.  Fr. Jordan assumed the office of pastor this past July, having previously ministered as the chaplain of Walsh University in Youngstown, OH.
Also in the last year, the interior of [...]