We recently welcomed Fr. Thomas McDermott, O.P., to the monastery to give us a week of talks on St. Catherine of Siena.
Fr. Thomas McDermott
St. Catherine of Siena was an Italian mystic who lived in the 1300s. Although not a nun, she lived as a Dominican mantellate, a lay woman who embraced Dominican spirituality.
Fr. McDermott is a Dominican priest with the Central Province, who did his doctorate and wrote several books about St. Catherine. He taught us all about her life, spirituality, and visions, and the things she did to try to make herself more in conformity with Jesus Christ.
We enjoyed the talks and meeting with Fr. McDermott. We love learning more about our Dominican heritage, and St. Catherine of Siena is a model to us all in how to live our Dominican life.
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