St. Dominic's Church and Priory and the Thomistic Institute present:

A Solemn Jubilee Celebration of St. Thomas Aquinas

Wednesday, March 6th

6:30 p.m. Confession

7:00 p.m. Adoration with preaching by Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

7:50 p.m. Compline

Thursday, March 7th

7:00 p.m. Mass with preaching by Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P.

St. Dominic Church (501 6th Street SW, Washington, DC 20024)

This event is free and open to the public.

About the Preachers:

Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. is an adjunct professor of dogmatic theology at the Dominican House of Studies and an Assistant Director of the Thomistic Institute. He is the author of a few books including Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly. His writing also appears in Ascension’s Catholic Classics, Magnificat, and Aleteia. He is a regular contributor to the podcasts Pints with Aquinas, Catholic Classics, The Thomistic Institute, and Godsplaining.

Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P. was born in Manhattan (1965) and grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. After graduating from School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia, he worked in software design at AT&T for five years before entering the Dominican Order in 1992. After obtaining his S.T.B./M.Div. (1998) and S.T.L. (2000) at the Dominican House of Studies, he served for three years in St. Pius Parish in Providence, R.I., before going on to complete his studies doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg in 2009. He was awarded the Thomas Aquinas Dissertation Prize by the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University (2010) for his dissertation on God the Father in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. He now teaches at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., where he has also served as book review editor of The Thomist, chaplain to commuter students, and chaplain to the Immaculate Conception Chapter of Third Order Dominicans.