This Dominican saint found a new use for his cappa - sailing across the seas! Sound incredible, read on to learn more about this humble and saintly lawyer-turned-friar.
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How many Magi visited the Holy Family? We don’t actually know, because Scripture doesn’t specify exactly. Tradition tells us there were three because Scripture mentions three gifts they brought: gold, frankincense and myrrh. But legend speaks of a fourth. Here is his story.
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A young woman recently completed her aspirancy with our community. As she was nearing the end of her month-long stay, one of the sisters asked her, “Has anything surprised you during your time here?” The young woman smiled and exuberantly responded, “You’re all crazy – in a good way! I didn’t expect you to have so much fun!” She’s not the first to be surprised by our Dominican joy.
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He saw and he believed. St. John saw an empty tomb and burial cloths rolled up and folded; he believed the mysterious words of his Master, “on the third day he will rise again”. St. John did not need to see Jesus. It was enough that his body was no longer in the tomb. In the same way, Simeon, years earlier, had been satisfied at seeing and holding in his arms a tiny baby…
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To all of our family, friends, and benefactors who make our lives merry and bright…
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Only a couple more days! We’re busily preparing to welcome and celebrate the coming of our Infant King!
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A few years ago at a general audience in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis reminded the Church, “Let us give thanks to the Lord for the powerful testimony of cloistered life.” He also urged the faithful to lend their spiritual and material support to these brothers and sisters of ours “so that they can carry out their important mission.”
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On Saturday, October 13th, a group of young women from around the Bay Area (and beyond) gathered here at the monastery for our second Janua Caeli Retreat Day. Father Pius Pietrzyk, OP of the Province of Saint Joseph spoke on our quest for happiness and how we can truly find happiness as we live a life of prayer and virtue, and how to go about it with the demands of life today.
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A short video from our novitiate sisters in honor of Saint Louis Bertrand, Dominican friar and patron of novice masters, novice mistresses and novitiate brothers and sisters. Happy feast day!
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Take a coffee break with Sister Joseph Marie! Happy feast day!
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