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Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues:

I trust that all of you are

The dog days of summer linked daily to the work of
are upon us. Many of you the Province through your
are finding your way to receipt of the Dominican
beaches and resorts, even Daily which provides news
foreign destinations. But I and insights on such broad
am hopeful that this issues as Islam and
electronic means of Interreligious Dialogue to
communication still finds Bioethics to a Catholic
its way to you. On behalf reading of the Old
Testament. We receive
of all the Friars of the Province of St. Joseph, formation as we seek to
I send you and your loved ones prayers and examine and understand
gratitude for your unfailing support. While these cultural and
the pace of sustained economic recovery of intellectual issues from the
the nation—and the world—remains prism of the Thomistic
uncertain—your continued generosity stands tradition.
as a beacon of hope. In our prayers, we As we benefit in this way
remember also all the Americans, and people from the ongoing work and
everywhere, as they cope with joblessness, mission of the friars, we are
anxiety and outright poverty. reminded that their mission
is made possible by our own
Next Saturday August 15, the Feast of the sustained support and
Assumption, marks the Province’s highlight prayers.
of the summer. That day, at a ceremony at
St. Gertrude’s Church and Priory in Sincerely in Christ,
Cincinnati, OH, Fr. Brian Mulcahy, O.P., Vicar
Provincial for Personnel will receive the
Simple Profession of Vows of nine Friars.
What joy to see these men take a huge step Ray Clark
toward becoming Dominicans! How the Lord President
Dominican Foundation
continues to bless us with plentiful vocations!
Significantly, this week the Center for Applied
Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown
published a new study confirming a trend
powerfully exemplified by our Province: the
majority of young people entering or
considering religious life choose Orders that
have remained true to their founding
principles and practices—Orders, like the
Dominicans, that feature community life and Please Support the
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We urge those of you who can to stay in touch Dominican Foundation
by continuing to visit our Web site, to refresh today. Because of the
and nourish yourself with our Friars’ spiritual generosity of our
reflections and highlights from the life of the friends, w e’ve been able
Province which, also in the quiet summer to do so much. But this
months, continues to witness to God’s love for can only continue if
His people. A newly designed section features Catholics like you
a line-up of Friar blogs, featuring first-rate continue to step out in
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Right now, one of the main features on the
site is a meditation on the life of St. Dominic
by Fr. Mulcahy, in honor of our Founder’s
Aug. 8 Feast Day. Fr. Mulcahy shows that
today’s Dominican preachers—facing an age

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today’s Dominican preachers—facing an age
of indifference and doubt about the meaning
of life—are called to the same momentous
task that faced the saint as he battled the
Albigensian heresy: “teaching the people to
fall in love with the Beloved, to lead them to
know Him Who is the Truth that would set
them free” and “to call down from heaven the
graces necessary to win the hearts of men
and women to a love of the Truth.” Click here
to read the full text.
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Yours, sincerely

Fr. John Farren, O.P.

Vicar Provincial for Advancement
Dominican Foundation

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