This Thursday, December 7th, we will have a very special guest at our weekly Healthcare Holy Hour. Fr. Mike Ford, OP, director of the St. Jude Shrine in Chicago, will bring the arm relic of St. Jude. This is one of the largest relics of an apostle outside of Europe, Read more…
On November 15th we celebrate the Feast of St. Albert the Great, who was a teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas, a natural scientist and pioneer of the scientific method, and patron of scientists. The Society of Catholic Scientists will host the annual Gold Mass for Scientists at St. Joseph’s Church in Read more…
On October 18th we celebrate the feast of St. Luke, patron of physicians. The Catholic Medical Association New York Metropolitan Guild and Dominican Healthcare Ministry will host a special Mass for Healthcare Workers. All physicians, nurses, medical students, healthcare professionals are especially invited, as well as anyone who would like to Read more…
Next week the Church celebrates the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross and the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. This pair of feast days is especially important to us in the Dominican Healthcare Ministry, who in the care of the sick meet Christians carrying their own cross and Read more…
This fall, on September 30th, the Dominican Friars will host the first annual Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage. This is a national pilgrimage celebrating the Rosary at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. The parish of St. Vincent Ferrer and St. Catherine of Siena will host Read more…
Please join us on Tuesday August 29th for the conclusion of the 125th anniversary year of the Dominican Friars’ ministry at St. Catherine of Siena Church. Our special anniversary Mass to thank the Lord for his merciful love shown at this church for so many years will begin at 5:15pm. His Eminence Timothy Read more…
The Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage is a national pilgrimage celebrating the Rosary at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC on September 30, 2023, the Vigil of Rosary Sunday. This full-day event is hosted by the Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Joseph and Read more…
Each summer the Dominican Healthcare Ministry hosts seminarians for our Ministry Internship Program, offering formation and training for seminarians in the pastoral care of the sick. Interns participate in our work caring for the sick by visiting patients, praying with them, and bringing Holy Communion. We also give classroom instruction Read more…
Join the Dominican Healthcare Ministry for the St. Gianna Mass on Monday May 8th at 6:30pm, offered for couples suffering infertility and miscarriage. St. Gianna Berretta Molla is the patron of mothers, physicians, and unborn children. St. Gianna, born in Italy in 1922, was a pediatric physician and mother of Read more…
Join the Dominican Healthcare Ministry and the Friends of St. Margaret on Friday April 21st at 5:15pm for our annual St. Margaret of Castello Mass. St. Margaret was born with many serious physical disabilities, was rejected by her family, and eventually found a home as a Third Order Dominican. She Read more…
Enter into the mysteries of the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of our Lord with the Dominican Healthcare Ministry and the Dominican Friars at St. Catherine of Siena Church. HOLY WEEK LITURGIES AT SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA CHURCHPalm Sunday:4:00 p.m. Saturday Low Vigil Mass10:00 a.m. Low Mass11:30 a.m. Blessing of the Palms and Read more…
The Dominican Healthcare Ministry has published a short pamphlet, called Life is Changed, Not Ended, intended to help Catholics consider their eternal end and make adequate preparations for their own death. This publication distills the experience and knowledge of the Dominican Friars who work full time in the hospitals, where Read more…
On February 11, the Feast Day of Our Lady of Lourdes, the Church celebrates World Day of the Sick in memory of the many healings of body and soul given through the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes.Learn more about her story here. At St. Catherine of Siena Church Read more…
We are starting the new year by updating the name, logo, and website of our ministry! Now called Dominican Healthcare Ministry, a simplification of the previous Dominican Friars Health Care Ministry of New York, we have updated our website and designed a new logo. The new crest is based on Read more…
Schedule of Intentions for the Healthcare Holy Hours, Epiphany to Easter 2023
The Catholic Medical Association is the largest association of Catholic individuals in health care, to help members to grow in faith, maintain ethical integrity, and provide excellent health care in accordance with the teachings of the Church. (cathmed.org) The NYC Guild of the Catholic Medical Association will have its first meeting of the Read more…
The priests of Dominican Healthcare Ministry each has their own vocation story, and their own path to the priesthood now dedicated to the spiritual care of the sick. On May 21, 2022 Fr. James Ritch was among 10 new priests ordained at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Read more…
Schedule of Intentions for the Healthcare Holy Hours, Fall of 2022