Dominican Life in Rome

Fr. Dominic Holtz, O.P. leads a tour of Santa Sabina in Rome.

Many of the men we meet in the Vocations Office are initially interested in the ministries that our men are engaged in both within the Province and outside of our geographical boundaries. We have had men missioned to Nigeria and Bolivia for decades. However, we do not know what the future holds for our Province as far as the Mission fields go, because the success of both Bolivia and Nigeria have left them self-sufficient and no longer in need of new men from our Province to minister in either country. While we do have men still in Nigeria and Bolivia, they will not be joined by our young men in formation. We wait for new opportunities to minister throughout the world, which will likely come by way of a request from the Master of the Order in Rome.

Rome is a place where we have a relatively large number of men in active ministry. We have two in the General Curia at Santa Sabina and three ministering and teaching at the Angelicum in Rome. One of the interesting facts regarding our Provincial presence in Rome is that the entire Latin language curriculum is taught exclusively by our friars Frs. Dominic Holtz, O.P. and Albert Glade, O.P. Further, Fr. Michael Monshau, O.P. teaches the only homiletics curriculum in all of Rome. It's clear that the gifts of the friars of the Central Province reach far and wide and faithfully serve the Church no matter where they are called.

A good sign of a vocation to the Dominicans is a desire to serve the Order and the Church in unique and adventurous ways. Men entering our way of life will soon find the Order challenging them to realize gifts they may not know they had, and then to use those gifts to further the mission of Jesus Christ in preaching His message of salvation to the farthest corners of the world.

But you won't know what you can do with the help of God until you try!