The Call
Vocations find their true meaning in Christ
Three young men share their stories as they are just days away from receiving an irreversible grace of being ordained priests. They speak about how they were influenced by others and how they could not avoid the call from God to be men who serve others.
Click here to see their video.
Keeping the Light Burning
Your prayers, service and donations help us to keep the flame of Dominican Vocations bright in the Western United States. Please do consider making a regular contribution for future preachers for the salvation of souls.
Saint Jude Shrine
Shrine of
St. Jude Thaddeus
2390 Bush Street
P.O. Box 15368
San Francisco
California 94115-0368
415-931-5919
www.stjude-shrine.org
Feast of the Presentation
Luke 2, 22 - 40
(Feast of the Presentation, Presenting, and Proclaiming, Aquinas Priory, Providence College, 2-2-12)
Focus: Presenting and proclaiming the way of Jesus Christ.
Function: To remind hearers to proclaim what was presented.
---Fr. David Orique, OP
Feast of the Presentation
The Church, our Faith Community, sets aside this important celebration after the birth of Jesus Christ to recall the day that the Lord was presented in the temple. This Presentation prompted a vital proclamation of the Kingdom of God. Both Simeon and Anna saw, heard, and felt (Simeon held Jesus) the proclamation of the Gospel—the Gospel Incarnated before them.
The Eternal Lord was presented in time. Obviously, the temporal presentation of the infant Jesus in the temple occurred before the adult Jesus’ proclamation beyond the sanctuary. After the infant Jesus’ presentation, gradually the adult Lord revealed and proclaimed the fuller reason for His coming to dwell among humans: to proclaim the message and meaning of the Gospel to every man and woman, so that all might see, hear, and feel the Good News Incarnated before them.
Presenting and Proclaiming
In our own lives, there too were a series of presentations before we began the proclamation of the Gospel. We were presented to our parents after our birth. We were presented for Baptism. We were presented for First communion. We were presented for Confirmation—and we friars were presented for ordination. We were presented many times; and each instance was a gradual revelation to us and to others of the message and meaning of the Gospel.
Our Christian life is meant to proclaim what was presented to us: we proclaim to others the message of the Gospel—the Kingdom of God. Just as Jesus Christ (proclaims and) proclaimed the message and meaning of the Gospel to every man and woman, so that all might see, hear, and feel the Good News Incarnated before them; we too are to present the same to others.
Our effective presentation as adults of the Gospel message proclaims the sound and summoning power of the Birth, Life, and Death of Jesus Christ in an attractive and understandable way. Our efficacious presentation of the message is meant to transform rather than merely to conserve. Our real/essential presentation of the Good News is to proclaim the God of life and love, the God of light and infinity. Our authentic presentation of the Gospel message—presented and effected in time—will prepare us (and all) for the Eternal Kingdom.
---Fr. David Orique, OP
Mission West Newsletter
The Mission West Newsletter helps to keep your finger on the pulse of the province.
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Visit the Other Sites
of our Province
There are links to our ministry sites under Ministries. There are also links to information posted on some of those sites under About Us, including links to the blogs of the Students and House of Studies. Feel free to explore!
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Mission West:
Campaign for Dominican Friars
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Mission West: Campaign for Dominican Friars is a capital campaign to raise critical funds for the support of our mission of evangelization and preaching the gospel. Our mission begins by forming and educating our novices and student brothers to become good priests and brothers, zealous for Christ and His Gospel. We must also care for our aged friars who, having dedicated many years in service to the people of God are now offering their continued service in prayer during their retirement, often requiring specialized care. This is why our new, three-year effort to raise $15 million is subtitled Campaign for Dominican Friars.
Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary
Join the Rosary Confraternity, a world-wide movement of prayer for peace.
Learn about the rosary and Mary by visiting the Rosary Center, home of the Rosary Confraternity and a souce for many spiritual blessings.
Building A Faithful Church
Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
Tradition Today
At DSPT we are a community engaged in study that is rooted in tradition and provides answers to today's challenges.
"Undoubtedly one of the strengths of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology is the ability it fosters in its students to dialogue, on the intellectual level, with contemporary society ....The faculty is both academically prepared and doctrinally sound."
- 2008 report of the Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education.