The Dominican laywoman Ms. Mª Ángeles de la Riva is the new director of the House of Spirituality of Caleruega. From January 2023, the House of Spirituality of Caleruega, of the Province of Hispania, has begun a new stage in the management of all the services it offers. For this new stage, Mrs. Mª de los Ángeles de la Riva,…
Mark De Caluwe was born in Ghent in 1936, on 28 July – the anniversary of J.S. Bach’s death, as he liked to say. Coming from a large family – he was the second of ten children – he always remained very attached to his family. His father Adiel (1906-1988) was a doctor specialising in gynaecology. Together with his wife…
Dear Fr. Timoner: We understand that the Dominican Month of Peace for 2022 focuses the Dominican Family’s attention on the present situation in Myanmar. In your letter to the worldwide Order, you wrote; ‘Our sisters and brothers in Myanmar have been subjected to atrocities and human rights violation which has gone unreported in the main media. Recently, the military broke…
The Dominican Sisters of Sparkill introduced a new Dominican song of final commendation for their funeral celebrations. Written by Sister Margaret Palliser, OP, “Under Mary’s Mantle” takes its inspiration from one of the stories recorded by Blessed Cecilia Cesarini (1203-1290), one of the first Dominican nuns in Rome who was the first prioress of the Dominican convent of nuns in Bologna.
A prodigious prayer, simple and great. A link between heaven and earth, but also the glue of the Christian community because it can unite the illiterate and the Catholic intellectual. The Rosary is what Pope Francis has called “a synthesis of the story of God’s mercy that is transformed into the story of salvation for those who allow themselves to…
Well-known South African Catholic priest, anti-apartheid activist and internationally renowned theologian and author Fr. Albert Nolan has died at the age of 88. He died peacefully in his sleep under the care of the Dominican Sisters at Marian House in Boksburg in the early hours of Monday October 17. Born Denis James Harry Nolan in Cape Town on September 2,…
On the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Pontifical Coronation of the statue of “Nuestra Señora del Rosario de la Defensa y Reconquista de Buenos Aires”, the Argentinian Province of St. Augustine (which includes Argentina and Chile) released a video of a new hymn dedicated to the Blessed Mother. The song was composed by one of the student friars,…
The Diocese of Assisi instituted the International Award “Francis of Assisi
and Carlo Acutis for an Economy of Fraternity”; The award bestows a maximum price of 50,000.00€ to a chosen project.
We encourage the brothers who are engaged in forming communities, guiding their growth
with sustainable means and programs to forward their application before 31 December 2022.
In the beginning, Brazil was a colony of Portugal. For the Order, this area of evangelisation was reserved for the Dominicans of Portugal, but they never came to this country. It was only at the end of the 19th century that the first Dominicans, belonging to the Province of Toulouse, made their presence felt in Brazil.However, we can say that…
The Master of the Order, Brother Gerard Francisco TIMONER III, appointed on October 7th, 2019, the feast day of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary, brother Lawrence LEW, O.P., as General Promoter of the Rosary. Fr. Lawrence LEW, O.P. was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, into an evangelical Protestant family. Formed by the brothers of the De La Salle Christian…
