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Eleven candidates for the Province of St. Joseph will arrive today at Providence College to begin their postulancy, a three-week initiation into the essential features of Dominican religious life. At the end of the month, they will travel together to Cincinnati, where at St. Gertrude’s Priory they will spend one year in the novitiate preparing for simple vows. The novitiate year will officially begin on August 8, the Feast of St. Dominic, when the prior of the community will clothe the postulants in the habit, give them a copy of the Order’s constitutions, and bestow upon them a new religious name.

One of the new postulants, Jack Devaney, met the Order and began discerning his Dominican vocation here at St. Vincent’s.

Please pray fervently for these eleven men, asking God to preserve and prosper them in religious life.

William “Bill” M. Garrett

John “Jack” J. Devaney

Thomas “Tom” J. Yergeau

Robert “Bob” Endorf

Joseph “Joe” Fussner

Erik Freeman

Adam R. White

Zane P. Toretta

Frederick “Fred” D. Erdman

Paul Marich

Philip C. Smith

For pictures and short biographies of our new postulants, please visit our Vocations Blog.

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