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