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Dominican Friars

Jul 08 2025

Acompáñanos a la Peregrinación Dominicana del Rosario

Sábado 27 de septiembre | 9:00 a. m. – 6:30 p. m.
Basílica del Santuario Nacional de la Inmaculada Concepción, Washington, DC

Acompaña a los Frailes Dominicos y a miles de católicos de todo el país en una peregrinación para honrar a Nuestra Señora y su Rosario. Será un día de predicación, oración, adoración eucarística, confesiones, y culminará con la celebración de la Misa de Vigilia.

Este año, habrá un programa especial en español dirigido por el Padre Josemaría Guzmán-Domínguez, O.P., y el Rosario será rezado en español, inglés y latín.

Desde ya, te invitamos a unirte espiritualmente rezando por el éxito de la peregrinación y por todos los que participarán. Puedes descargar la tarjeta de la Novena del Rosario en español para acompañar tu oración. Descárgala aquí.

También hemos preparado un volante en español para ayudarte a invitar a otros. Puedes imprimirlo o compartirlo en tu comunidad. Descárgalo aquí.

Para más información, reflexiones sobre el Rosario y videos mensuales, síguenos en @DominicanRosary y visita esta página con frecuencia.

Te esperamos en Washington, D.C., para rezar el Rosario bajo el manto de María.

Written by Dominican Friars · Categorized: 2024, Uncategorized

Jul 04 2025

Introducing the 2025 Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage Speakers

Each year, the Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage invites the faithful to draw closer to Christ through the preaching, prayer, and liturgy of the Order of Preachers. This year’s pilgrimage features a gifted team of friars who exemplify the Dominican charism. Fr. Austin Dominic Litke, O.P., serves as the principal preacher, bringing the wisdom of the Church Fathers to life through his preaching. Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., will offer the homily at Mass, drawing from years of pastoral experience and theological depth. And Fr. Joseph-Anthony Kress, O.P., the Province’s newly appointed Promoter of the Holy Rosary, will serve as the main celebrant, guiding pilgrims in prayer and leading us to a deeper devotion to Mary.


FrLitke

Fr. Austin Dominic Litke, O.P.
Principal Preacher

Fr. Austin Litke, O.P., is a Dominican friar of the Province of St. Joseph. He was ordained a priest in 2011 and has served as chaplain to patients at Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Hospital in New York city as well as to students at New York University. He earned a doctorate in Patristic Theology from the Pontifical Patristics Institute of the Lateran University in Rome and has taught at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (the Angelicum) in Rome as well as the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC. He is currently a professor in the Department of Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. This Fall, he will move to Rome to teach at the Angelicum. Fr. Austin is a member of the Hillbilly Thomists.

Fr. Joseph-Anthony Kress, O.P.

Fr. Joseph-Anthony Kress, O.P.
Promoter of the Holy Rosary & Main Celebrant

Fr. Joseph-Anthony Kress, O.P. entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 2010. He made his solemn profession on August 9, 2014 and was ordained a priest on May 21, 2016. In the spring of 2010 he graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville with a Bachelor of Arts and subsequently received a Bachelor of Sacred Theology and Masters of Divinity from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception. Fr. Joseph-Anthony served as the chaplain to Catholic Hoos at the University of Virginia from 2017-2024. In 2025 he began to serve as the Promoter of the Rosary for the Province of St. Joseph and Associate Director of the Dominican Friars Foundation. He is a co-host of the Godsplaining podcast alongside three of his Dominican classmates. Over the years he has worked in overseeing large-scale liturgies which include World Youth Day Krakow, USCCB Convocation, Fr. Emil Kapaun Homecoming, Amazing Parish conferences, and the National Eucharistic Congress. A native of St. Clairsville, OH, he is the youngest of three.

FrHofer

Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.
Homilist

Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., is Ordinary Professor and Editor-in-Chief of The Thomist at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, Dominican House of Studies and Master of Students for the deacons of the Province of St. Joseph at St. Dominic Priory in Washington, DC. Previously he served as a parochial vicar in Rhode Island, a missionary in Nairobi, Kenya, a doctoral student at the University of Notre Dame, and formator at the Dominican House of Studies. He is an author of many publications including The Power of Patristic Preaching: The Word in Our Flesh, Magnificat’s Way of the Cross and Rosary for a Eucharistic Revival, and he co-authored A Living Sacrifice: Guidance for Men Discerning Religious Life and Our Father: Our Prayer of Hope. He enjoys preaching on the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Written by Dominican Friars · Categorized: Uncategorized · Tagged: Dominican Friars, Rosary

Jul 02 2025

Meet Our Homilist for the 2025 Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage

We are pleased to announce that Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P. will preach the homily at this year’s Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage, taking place on Saturday, September 27, 2025, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.

Fr. Andrew is a longtime professor and preacher who currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Thomist and Ordinary Professor at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception. He is also Master of Students for the deacons of the Dominican Province of St. Joseph, guiding men in their final stage of preparation for priesthood.

Over the years, he has served in parish ministry in Rhode Island and taught in Nairobi, Kenya as a missionary. He earned his doctorate at the University of Notre Dame and has written extensively on theology and spiritual life, including The Power of Patristic Preaching, Rosary for a Eucharistic Revival, and Our Father: Our Prayer of Hope.

Fr. Andrew has a deep love for the Rosary, and we’re grateful that he’ll be sharing that love in his preaching at this year’s pilgrimage Mass.

We hope you’ll join us on September 27, 2025, for a full day of prayer, preaching, Eucharistic adoration, and the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass—all in the company of Our Lady and St. Dominic.

Written by Dominican Friars · Categorized: Uncategorized

Jun 23 2025

Fr. Austin Litke, O.P., Announced as 2025 Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage Principal Preacher

The Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage is pleased to announce that Fr. Austin Dominic Litke, O.P., will serve as the principal preacher for the 2025 pilgrimage on Saturday, September 27, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. Fr. Austin is the Promoter of the Holy Rosary for the Dominican Province of St. Joseph and a Dominican friar with a background in pastoral ministry and theological scholarship.

About Fr. Austin Litke, O.P.

Ordained a priest in 2011, Fr. Austin has served as a chaplain at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Hospital and at New York University. He earned a doctorate in Patristic Theology from the Pontifical Patristics Institute in Rome and has taught at both the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) and the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC.

He currently teaches in the Department of Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. This fall, he will return to Rome to begin a new assignment teaching at the Angelicum. Fr. Austin is also a member of The Hillbilly Thomists.

Join Us for the 2025 Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage

Now entering its third year, the Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage draws pilgrims from across the country for a full day of prayer, preaching, Eucharistic adoration, Confession, and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. In 2024, over 300 pilgrims were enrolled in the Rosary Confraternity, and the Basilica resounded with thousands praying the Rosary together.

We invite you to mark your calendars for Saturday, September 27, 2025, and join us at the Basilica in Washington, DC.

More details to come—including the official schedule.

Written by Dominican Friars · Categorized: Uncategorized · Tagged: Dominican Friars, Rosary

Jun 06 2025

The Rosary’s Essential Element: Contemplation

By Br. Jerome Masters, O.P.

In the decades following the Second Vatican Council, Venerable Patrick Peyton wanted to increase devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. To foster this devotion, he would lead Family Rosary Crusades where he coined the phrase: “The family that prays together stays together.” Eventually, in 1971, he wrote a letter to Pope Saint Paul VI asking the Rosary to be elevated to a liturgical prayer like the Liturgy of the Hours. Many similar requests that were received by the Holy See prompted Paul VI to promulgate the Apostolic Exhortation Marialis Cultus (On Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary) which was issued on February 2, 1974, on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord.

The Church’s devotion to the Blessed Virgin is an intrinsic element of Christian worship.”

– Pope Saint Paul VI, Marialis Cultus

This Apostolic Exhortation is split into three sections: the liturgy and devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the renewal of devotion to Mary, and reflections on the Angelus and the Rosary. In his reflection on the Rosary, Paul VI reminds us that the Rosary is “the compendium of the entire Gospel.” It is a “Gospel prayer” with a rich history that the popes have written numerous times such as Pope Saint Pius V, who “established the traditional form of the Rosary.” According to Paul VI, the Rosary makes us oriented to Christ, by its structure. “The litany-like succession of Hail Mary’s becomes in itself an unceasing praise of Christ…” In the Hail Mary, we call to mind the Savior of the world who is the fruit of Mary’s womb. Paul VI suggests that the name of Jesus was inserted into the Hail Mary to “help contemplation and to make the mind and the voice act in unison.”

Many will argue that the Rosary is not a commandment of God, nor is it found anywhere in Scripture. Why then pray the Rosary when you can go to God directly? Paul VI provides a good response to this argument both from the Rosary being a “Gospel prayer” (as stated above), but he also discusses, what he calls, the “essential element in the Rosary.” Contemplation. The Rosary without contemplation is “a body without a soul, and its recitation is in danger of becoming a mechanical repetition of formulas and of going counter to the warning of Christ: ‘And in praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their many words’ (Mt. 6:7).” By its nature the Rosary invites us, through the intercession of Our Lady, to contemplate the mysteries of Christ’s life. Starting with the angelic greeting of Gabriel to Mary to the Nativity of the Lord, to his public ministry, to his sufferings in the last days of his earthly life, to finally “the glory of the Risen Lord which fills the Church.” Paul VI beautifully says that “this contemplation by its very nature encourages practical reflection and provides stimulating norms for living.”

Paul VI invites us into three ways the Rosary could be recited. The first is private where there is an “intimate recollection with the Lord.” The second is in community, whether that be among family or in groups, “to ensure the special presence of the Lord.” The third is publicly where “the ecclesial community is invited.” Paul VI gives special consideration to the second way, specifically the Family Rosary. He says that after the Liturgy of the Hours “the Rosary should be considered as one of the best and most efficacious prayers in common that the Christian family is invited to recite.” As the Second Vatican Council calls the family “the domestic church” so Paul VI invites all families, as Patrick Peyton did, to pray the Rosary as a family. “Families which want to live in full measure of the vocation and spirituality proper to the Christian family must therefore devote all their energies to overcoming the pressures that hinder family gatherings and prayer in common.”

Although Pope Saint Paul VI did not give Venerable Patrick Peyton exactly what he asked for in making the Rosary a liturgical prayer, he provided a wonderful reflection on how “the Church’s devotion to the Blessed Virgin is an intrinsic element of Christian worship.” Because she points us to her son, who is both her savior and our savior. I recommend reading Marialis Cultus in its entirety and reflecting on how your devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary has led you to Christ through her intercession.

Photo by Fr. Lawerence Lew, O.P. (used with permission)

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