To mark the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes and the World Day of the Sick we are restarting our annual newsletter. The friars and lay volunteers of Dominican Healthcare Ministry are delighted to share with you the many ways in which our ministry has grown over the past year 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…
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…
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…
Saint Dominic is the Holy Founder of the Order of Preachers (the “Dominican” Order) that serves the parish community of St. Vincent Ferrer and St. Catherine of Siena on New York City’s Upper East Side and offers particular service to the health care community in that area and beyond through Read more…
Dominican Friars Health Care Ministry of New York is an extension of the health care ministry of the Catholic Church. The health care ministry of the Catholic Church is, in turn, an extension of the health care ministry of Jesus Christ. In our reflections on Christ the Healer, we have Read more…