 Br. Dominic Langevin is a student brother of the Eastern United
States Dominican Province of St. Joseph. He was born in 1976 near Chicago, Illinois, but
most recently hails from Fairfield, Connecticut. After six years of Catholic grade
school in the Midwest and two years of public middle school in Connecticut, Br. Dominic
attended Fairfield College Preparatory School, a Jesuit high school. It was here that he
first discerned a call to the Catholic priesthood. He attended Yale University in New
Haven, Connecticut, where he graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in the
Humanities, specializing in medieval studies and with a senior thesis on The Divine Comedy
of Dante. Br. Dominic met the Order of Preachers at St. Mary's Church, a New Haven
parish staffed by Dominicans. He was attracted to the Order by its commitment to
"Veritas" (one of the Order's mottoes, meaning "truth") and by the
life of contemplation, preaching, and teaching. He was particularly enthralled by the life
of the Order's founder, St. Dominic, and by its other saints as well. Br. Dominic received
the habit of the Order after college, spending his novitiate year at St. Gertrude's Priory
in Cincinnati, Ohio. He made first profession of religious vows on the Solemnity of the
Assumption in the year 1999. He is currently one of five Eastern Province student brothers
pursuing introductory philosophy studies at the Dominican School of Philosophy and
Theology in Berkeley, California, with residency at St.
Albert's Priory in Oakland. He looks forward to making solemn profession and being
ordained a Catholic priest, after which he would like to be engaged in the preaching and
teaching apostolates of the Order. |
