An article on May 8, 2010 from Daily Progress on the upcoming priory.
Between taking communion and singing hymns at Mass, the worshippers at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church kneeled, their heads lowered, in silence.
Such calm is what the four friars of the Charlottesville church seek as they contemplate scripture and pray, but it is getting harder to obtain because of the cramped single-family house they live in on Alderman Road.
That will soon change. The church that serves many from the University of Virginia is planning to build a nearly 11,000-square-foot monastery, the St. Thomas Aquinas Priory, that will house at least six Dominican friars and is believed to be the first constructed monastery within city limits.
