About Us

When the Dominican Friars (Officially: Friars of the Order of Preachers) came to Denver before 1889, there was no thought of starting a new parish much less building a new church building. Rather, those early Friars came to Denver for the sunshine and mountain air thought to be a sure cure for various respiratory ailments of the late 19th century. But, when Father J.T. Murphy arrived plans were set in motion and the foundations of what would become St. Dominic Catholic Church were firmly established. 

From our earliest days till today, we have been a neighborhood Church of immigrants. It was the Irish that built the Church’s foundations and the Italian who came quickly behind. In the early 1970s we took on a Mexican flavor and with the turn of the century we are quickly becoming a reflection of our regentrified neighborhood. Today we are a “people of every race, language, and way of life who come together to share in the one eternal banquet with Jesus Christ the Lord.” (Eucharistic Prayer for Reconciliation II)

Mission Statement

Transformed through relationship with God and each other,the St. Dominic Family reflects the Spirit by embracing diversity and living God’s love through service and stewardship.

Mass Schedule

Monday through Friday:   7:45 am., Chapel

Saturday:  5:00 pm. (Church)

Sunday:  7:30 & 9:30 am (English); and 11:30 a.m.

Holy Days of Obligation:  7 am. & 7 pm. Bilingual (Church)

Jubilee Year of the Priest

Hoping to reinvigorate the priesthood, Pope Benedict XVI announced a Jubilee Year of the Priest beginning June 19, 2009.

During a March 16 plenary assembly with members of the Congregation for the Clergy, the Pope called for the event to mark the 150th anniversary of the death of St. John Vianney, the Curé of Ars, and for the “spiritual perfection” of the Church’s priests.

St. John Vianney died on Aug. 4, 1859.

“The missionary dimension of a priest arises from his sacramental configuration to Christ the head,” said the Pope, highlighting the “indispensable struggle for moral perfection which must dwell in every truly priestly heart.”

“The ecclesial, communional, hierarchical and doctrinal dimension is absolutely indispensible for any authentic mission, and this alone guarantees its spiritual effectiveness,” said Pope Benedict, adding that priests must be “present, identifiable and recognizable — for their judgment of faith, personal virtues and attire — in the fields of culture and of charity, which have always been at the heart of the Church’s mission.”

“The announcement was a great surprise,” admitted Father Jim Steffes, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations. Father Steffes hopes the year will help renew the priesthood.

Father Steffes said that just as the identity of Christ, the High Priest, was in his relationship with God the Father, “that, too, is where we find our identity as priests — in relationship with God.”

But too often priests’ identity is wrapped up in the things that they do. “Pastoral ministry and all that we need to be responsible for … that isn’t what our identity is,” he said. “We need to know who we are so that we can bring that to those entrusted to us. The Year of the Priest gives us a wonderful opportunity.”

Source cited:  NCRegister.com

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