As his coworkers, when we share in his teaching and healing ministry, we share in the very heart of Jesus, the very heart of God, for our hearts like his are moved with compassion at the suffering we see, and we are filled with gratitude at the mercy we receive.

In this Advent season we often focus on gift giving. Today let us take time to reflect on the marvelous gifts we have been given.

We usually spend a lot of time and energy preparing for Christmas Day: buying decorations and gifts, making plans to travel or host others — or both, and tracking down an item or ingredient to make something perfect. How much time do we spend preparing our souls for Christmas Day?

Why doesn’t everyone see the truth of God’s love for humanity? Why are so many simply unable to know what God has in store for them.

The season of Advent, these four weeks, are meant to prepare us for what we long to see and what we desire to hear.

There is no way to distinguish or separate Christ's truth from his authority. If we accept the truth that Jesus is the Christ, then we also accept his authority as our Lord.

Standing before the rising sun, coffee mug in hand, I pray Bergan and Schwan’s poetic version of the Principle and Foundation for St. Ignatius’s “Spiritual Exercises”: As your love is spilling over into creation...

St. Zdislava is a perfect example of how obedience to God is a path for everyone to follow.

St. Albert the Great is the patron of the novitiate house of the Province of St. Martin de Porres. Through his prayers, may our Dominican novices gain knowledge of God and deepen their devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

How many canonized saints and blesseds are there in the Dominican Order? According to Master Gerrard Timoner III (the current successor of Saint Dominic), we have 389 saints and blesseds within the Dominican Order (Order of Preachers).

My novice brothers hear a lot about my Camino de Santiago pilgrimage that I made a few months before entering the Order. The Camino revealed the rich spiritual and cultural heritage of the Catholic Faith in Spain spanning centuries.

Much like St. Dominic, St. Martín devoted his nights to prayer and often slept on the floor. Yet, despite these austerities – or perhaps precisely because of them – his joyful spirit never wavered, even in the most challenging times.

He was a man who constantly gave himself to others through his preaching, teaching, and blessings. His first assignment was as novice master to the Dominican novices in Valencia. During his several years as novice master, he proved himself to be a prudent, kind, and firm shepherd of souls.

The Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary which we celebrate today was originally known as the Feast of Our Lady of Victory. In 1571, Pope Pius V organized a coalition of Christian forces, known as the Holy League, to rescue Christians in Cyprus from the attacks of the Ottoman Empire.

Raymond was Catherine’s spiritual director for the last six years of her life. After inspiring many sinners to repent, Catherine sent them to Raymond to confess their sins.

In his youth, he was good-natured and generous, a rich frat boy among his friends, a pampered prince smothered with the love of his enabling parents, a spendthrift, and a prodigal son.

When we meditate on even the lives of the saints, we recognize how Christ lived through them, and how His earthly life can sometimes be uncannily similar to those of the saints.

His life, marked by humility, service, and profound spiritual experiences, continues to inspire those who seek to live out the radical vocation of a Cooperator Brother in the Order of Preachers.

One in eight known pregnancies end in miscarriage, one in eight married couples experience infertility, and one in five households are raising children that have special health needs. In starting a conversation about some of the challenges involved in women’s health and being unabashedly Catholic, our goal is to learn how to listen, support, and aid our sisters so that we might begin to create that culture of life that we are called to build.

Jesus heals the man's deafness and his speech impediment and then orders him to be silent. In fact, he orders everyone who witnesses the healing to be silent about what they saw.