Priory of the Immaculate Conception

The Dominican House of Studies in DC is a priory of the Order of Preachers, Province of St. Joseph.

The Friars Preachers were founded almost 800 years ago by St. Dominic de Guzman as an order dedicated to the proclamation of the Word of God for the salvation of souls. The Dominican way of life is comprised of the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience, study, and the daily common celebration of the Eucharist and the Liturgy of the Hours. By these means a life of preaching and teaching is advanced. As the great Dominican teacher, St. Thomas Aquinas, expressed it, the goal of the Order of Preachers is to contemplate and to give to others the fruits of their contemplation. As God comes more and more to occupy the center of the preachers life, so he comes to be at the center of his preaching and ministry to others.