We are, first and foremost, a Eucharistic people. Our life centers on the table where the +Christ is offered, where resurrection is remembered, and where love is made manifest.

In the spirit of St. Francis, we walk with simplicity, humility, and a reverence for all creation. And in the spirit of St. Dominic, we proclaim truth boldly, formed by study, prayer, and a deep love for the Word. We are preachers, teachers, healers, and servants committed to a life of sacred action and contemplation. We believe that the Gospel must be lived as much as it is preached.

As we journey, we share God’s self-revealing love through service and witness. The truth, when lived with integrity and offered with humility, becomes a healing presence. We are accountable to the disciplines of learning, formation, and prayer. We study to deepen our understanding. We serve to purify our hearts. We prepare a path illuminated by the Spirit and paved by the faithfulness of those who have gone before us.

Though they came from different places and held different visions, St. Francis of Assisi and St. Dominic de Guzmán are remembered not only for their distinct charisms—but for their friendship. Francis offered the world a radical embrace of poverty, creation, and simplicity. Dominic offered the world a profound dedication to truth, preaching, and disciplined learning.

Both lived lives of devotion, humility, and courageous witness. Francis kissed the leper and saw Christ in the poor. Dominic preached in the streets, debated with kindness, and wept for those he could not persuade. Both loved the Church, and both challenged her to return to the Gospel.

We do not choose between them. We walk with both.

The Order of Sts. Francis and Dominic is a response to that shared legacy: a path that seeks truth without pride, simplicity without naivety, and love without compromise.