Featured Friar
Br. Dominic McManus, O.P.
“The truth which we seek daily to know better and love more is not a proposition; rather, it is a person—the person of our Blessed Lord. Once we have grasped this, that when Jesus identifies Himself with the Truth that He has sanctified all truth, then we find ourselves compelled, not by fear, nor by ambition, but by the very love of God, to the discipline of study. In time this discipline orders not only our thoughts, but our affections also, and so our love for God and neighbor is perfected in contemplative study.”
Bro. Dominic McManus, OP
DOB: October 5, 1982
Professed: August 13, 2006
Current Ministry: Student Brother
Fun Facts: Dominican Student Brother. Wannabe Classicist. Sometime Poet. Gaelic Enthusiast. Inveterate Storyteller. No fixed abode.
Iowa born and cornfed, Brother Dominic graduated from Dowling Catholic High School in West Des Moines in 2001 and Loras College in Dubuque in 2004.He made first vows on in 2006, and after two years of study at Aquinas Institute of Theology and St. Louis University went on to work for a year at St. Paul Catholic Center at Indiana Univeristy, Bloomington.He is spending the summer of ’09 as an intern with Father Wisdom in the vocations office and will return to studies in the fall. In his free time he reads mystery novels, listens (and plays a bit) of traditional Irish music, and studies St. Thomas.
