Summer 2015 Opportunities to Visit the Novitiate
May 13, 2015
Solemn Mass of our Holy Father St. Dominic
Saturday August 8, 2015 – 11:30AM Join our friars and the parish of St. Gertrude for the Solemnity of our Holy Father, St. Dominic. The postulants receive the Dominican habit in a private ceremony in St. Gertrude Priory just before this Mass. They will join the parish community in the church for the first of many times as Dominican novices in the Order of Preachers. There will be an opportunity to meet and have lunch with Director of Vocations, Fr. Benedict Croell OP, please RSVP: vocations@dominicanfriars.org 
Join our friars, the parish of St. Gertrude, our novices and their families for an extraordinary opportunity for our Mass of Simple Profession on the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Starts at 11:30AM in St. Gertrude Church, 7630 Shawnee Run Rd., Madeira OH, 45243.
The novitiate of the Dominican Province of St. Joseph is located at St. Gertrude Priory in Madeira, OH. It is the house of formation for the men who have just entered the province and it is a time of continued discernment in preparation for profession of first vows. The novitiate year begins during first vespers of the Feast of our Holy Father St. Dominic when the postulants are vested in the habit of the Dominican friar and ends during the Mass of simple profession a year and a week later.
