Welcome Father Lukasz Misko, O.P.!
Photo by Natalia Miazga from the Dominican Liturgical Centre.
We are very pleased to announce Father Lukasz Misko, O.P. as a new contributor to the Totus Tuus Apostolate.
He is a Dominican Priest of the Province of Poland, he grew up in Przemysl, Poland and entered Religious Life in 2000. He graduated from the Pontifical John Paul II University in Krakow with a degree in Patristic Theology in 2007.
After two years of ministry in Jaroslaw, Poland, Father Lukasz was sent to join the Dominican campus ministry team at the Columbia University in the City of New York. Ever since, his focus has been to form people through their conscious participation in the liturgical life of the Church, and the music developed within Dominican environment in Poland lends itself exceptionally well to this purpose.
Photo by Natalia Miazga from the Dominican Liturgical Centre.
In collaboration with Christopher Mueller he translated and arranged many of those compositions, introducing them into liturgical life of the ministry sites he has served: Columbia University in NYC, Holy Family Cathedral in Anchorage, AK, University of Washington Newman Center in Seattle, WA, and St. Catherine’s Newman Center in Salt Lake City, UT.
Extraordinary Music Workshop 2022, Sunday Holy Mass, photo by Magdalena Kuza for the Dominican Liturgical Center
During World Youth Day 2016 in Krakow, Poland, he served as the co-director of Liturgy and music at the English-speaking site, the Mercy Center, leading music for 18,000 pilgrims at Tauron Arena. (Read more here on CCWatershed). One of the fruits of this project was an invitation to direct music at the USCCB Convocation of Catholic Leaders in Orlando, FL, in July 2017.
Photo by Natalia Miazga from the Dominican Liturgical Centre.
In July 2019, he came back to Poland to become the President of the Dominican Liturgical Centre, an apostolate whose aim is to help people rediscover the richness of the Catholic faith through beauty. Additionally, he serves as a member of the Subcommittee on Liturgical Music of the International Liturgical Commission of the Dominican Order and the Provincial Promoter of the Liturgy for the Dominican Province of Poland. He is also the chaplain of the international English-speaking Catholic community in Kraków.
In 2024, Father Lukasz received his Licentiate in Sacred Theology (STL) from Catholic Academy of Warsaw (AKW) where he currently pursues his doctorate in Dogmatic Theology.
Photo by Natalia Miazga from the Dominican Liturgical Center.
Father Lukasz loves walking the 'Way of Saint James', popularly known as the 'Santiago Da Compostella', working with college students, and theological conversations involving good wine.
Please join us in welcoming Father Lukasz Misko, O.P. to Totus Tuus Apostolate!
