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Our Program of Formation involves eight years of academic and ministerial training. Throughout all that time our student friars in formation depend completely on the generosity of others and so keep our benefactors in particular at the center of our prayer life. Pleased do ad your own regular donation to our continuing need. We thank you now and will continue to thank you with our prayers.
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Our Dominican School
The Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA offers Masters and other degree and certificate programs rooted in the tradition of the Dominican order and our brother, St. Thomas Aquinas. Faithful to the teaching of Holy Mother, the Church, our school prepares not only young men studying for the priesthood, but also other men and women who will be the leaders of local communities of faith. Please do join in supporting this essential ministry of the Western Dominican Province.
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Fr. Healy on Pentecost
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Play at "theWord"
Fr. Kieran Healy, OP is presently the Director and chaplain for our Retreat Center, St. Benedict Lodge, at McKenzie Bridge, Oregon. He has enjoyed a long and fruitful ministry as pastor, Newman chaplain, preacher, student master and a host of other ministries. He has a remarkable green thumb and has left a trail of living beauty wherever he has been assigned.
