Last summer, Sean Tobin '20 was awarded a Father Philip A. Smith, O.P. Fellowship for Student Service and Study Abroad, which allowed him to study and pray alongside Dominicans at École Biblique, a scripture school in Jerusalem run by French Dominicans. The experience was a spiritual turning point. It was at École Biblique on the feast of St. Dominic, Aug. 8, when he felt reassurance that he was being called to Dominican life. Tobin prayed a novena to St. Dominic leading up to the feast day. That day, after Mass and after the other Friars had filed out, he prayed the final day of the novena at a side altar. Upon finishing, he felt “a flood of peace and reassurance wash over me, confident of Holy Father Dominic’s paternal protection and guidance.” In the fall, he submitted his application to the Dominican Friars of the Province of Saint Joseph's vocations director. Click our #linkinbio to read more about Tobin. #PC2020