Rome, November 29, 2022 The CIM meeting finally took place in person after the Covid-19 crisis and a Zoom meeting last year. We met with great joy and hope in the Lord of Life, in the “Casa El Rosario” of the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation, in Rome from the 8th to the 16th of November. We had not been…
On 7 August 2022, the electoral and deliberative General Assembly of the Dominican Secular Institute of Orleans elected its new General Superior and General Council for a six-year term. For the first time in the history of the Institute, a Polish woman—Agnieszka Kuryś—now heads the institute. The assembly was held in Angers, France, from August 5 to 10 this year.…
On 7 November 2022, on the feast of All Saints of the Order of Preachers, in accordance with the Statutes of the ICLDF n.1 B. 3, Fr. Gerard Francisco Timoner III OP, Master of the Order of Preachers, confirmed Mr. Sébastien Milazzo as President of the European Council of Lay Dominican Fraternities for a term of 3 years. This confirmation…
WYD Lisbon 2023 – from August 1 to 6
The Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life held the international preparatory meeting for WYD2023, organized by the Local Organizing Committee (COL), in the Paul VI Auditorium in Fatima (Portugal).
From April 24 to 28, 2022, the 2nd African Congress of Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic was held at the Corpus Christi Monastery of the Dominican Nuns, in Nairobi, Kenya. The theme of the Congress was “Contribution of Lay Dominicans to Development in Africa“. To comply with the preventive measures against COVID-19, it was a mixed congress (online mode for…
On August 31, 2022, the Master of the Order, fr. Gerard Francisco Timoner III, OP confirmed the election of the new International Commission of IDYM (2022-2026).
From August 2 to 5, 2022, in the Monastery of Santo Ecce-Homo in Colombia, eight diocesan priests met to prepare themselves with a spiritual retreat to be admitted as members of the Order of Preachers and to begin the novitiate for the constitution of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Dominic of the Province of St. Louis Bertrand. The spiritual retreat…
(2021) On 9 July last, an image of the Virgin of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá was placed in the Vatican Gardens, on the occasion of the 102nd anniversary of her coronation as Queen and Patroness of Colombia. The mosaic, composed of more than 70,000 pieces of marble, stone and glass, and in which she appears accompanied by St. Andrew and…
In the Pauluskerk in Antwerp (Belgium), which is full of art from past centuries, a ‘new St. Dominic’ was revealed on Saturday 7 May, made by the Dutch painter Egbert Modderman.
The International Liturgical Commission of the Order of Preachers (CLIOP) convened from June 28th to July 1st, 2022 in Rome for their annual plenary meeting. In the fall of 2020 the Master of the Order appointed new members of the Commission for a 6 year term. It was also expanded to include a sub-commission on liturgical music.
