US Dominican Province Welcomes Its Biggest Class of Novices in Decades

US Dominican Province Welcomes Its Biggest Class of Novices in Decades

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Statistics show a drastic fall in the number of people entering religious life since the 1960s, yet during ceremonies Aug. 7, the Dominican Province of St. Joseph formally accepted 21 men as novices -- the province's largest novitiate class since 1966.

Father Bill Garrot is the province's outgoing vocations director. He is the man who the current vocations director appointed this summer, Father Benedict Croell, said played a key role in the "harvest" that yielded the 21 novices, who received the Dominican habit during an ancient ceremony called "vestition" at St. Gertrude's Priory in Cincinnati...




How wonderful!