Dominican House of Studies | Washington, D.C.
Join other current university students of the Thomistic Institute for the inaugural Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage!
Accepted students will be provided with free meals and overnight housing and have the opportunity to attend the pilgrimage at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, participate in Mass, attend Eucharistic Adoration, pray the Divine Office with the Dominican community and attend socials with students and friars throughout the weekend.
For more information about the Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage, including a more detailed program, please visit https://rosarypilgrimage.org/
Schedule:
Begins with check-in at 4:30 - 5:30 pm on Friday, September 29
Concludes with check-out at 9:00 am on Sunday, October 1
Program Speakers:
Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies) is from Pennsylvania and graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville. He previously served as the Assistant Director of Campus Outreach for the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC, and associate pastor of St. Louis Bertrand Catholic Church in Louisville, KY where he also taught at Bellarmine University. He currently serves as an adjunct professor of dogmatic theology at the Dominican House of Studies and an Assistant Director of the Thomistic Institute. He is a contributor on the Pints with Aquinas show and a co-host of the Catholic Classics podcast.
Fr. Gregory is the author of Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly (Our Sunday Visitor, 2022) and co-author with Matt Fradd of Marian Consecration With Aquinas: A Nine Day Path for Growing Closer to the Mother of God (TAN Books, 2020).
Fr. James Brent, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies) was born and raised in Michigan. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy, and completed his doctorate in Philosophy at Saint Louis University on the epistemic status of Christian beliefs according to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He has articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Natural Theology, in the Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas on “God’s Knowledge and Will”, and an article forthcoming on “Thomas Aquinas” in the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology. He earned his STL from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, and was ordained a priest in the same year. He taught in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America from 2010-2014, and spent the year of 2014-2015 doing full time itinerant preaching on college campuses across the United States.
Fr. Paul Marich, O.P. is a parochial vicar at St. Patrick Parish in Columbus, Ohio. A native of Youngstown, Ohio, he is a graduate of Franciscan University of Steubenville, and was ordained to the priesthood in 2022. Before entering the Dominicans, Fr. Paul worked as a high school teacher at Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Potomac Shores, Virginia, where he taught history and religion. In his current assignment in Columbus, he oversees the parish liturgy and youth programs. Fr. Paul is the Promoter of the Holy Rosary for the Dominican Province of St. Joseph. In this role, he is responsible for preaching about the Rosary, enrolling new members, and helping priests establish charters of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary in their own parishes.
Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P. is the General Promoter of the Holy Rosary for the Dominican Order and is currently Rector of the Diocesan Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary in London, England. He is also currently chaplain of the Central Curia of the Legion of Mary in London and teaches apologetics, digital media, and Mariology at Blackfriars Hall in Oxford. Fr. Lew was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, into an evangelical Protestant family. Formed by the brothers of the De La Salle Christian Schools in their oldest missionary school in Singapore, Fr. Lawrence became a Catholic and has a great passion for theology, apologetics, Catholic culture, music and the sacred arts.
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