The Dominican Laity of the Province of England, Scotland, and Wales held their 2025 Assembly on Saturday, 20 September, at the Frassati Centre in Leicester. The gathering brought together Lay Dominicans from across the Province, along with enquirers interested in Dominican life. The theme of the day was Mission, with a particular focus on the Relatio of the Master of…
On the occasion of the Jubilee of Youth, the incorrupt body of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati — which has rested in the Cathedral of Turin since 1990 — will arrive in Rome for the first time, at the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, where it will be welcomed by the Dominican friar community. The relic of the young man from Turin will arrive at the basilica in the evening of July 25 and will remain on display for veneration until August 4, as confirmed by the Diocese of Rome, highlighting that this is the first time the blessed’s body will be venerated in Rome.
From July 25 to 27, 2025, the 39th National Assembly of Lay Dominicans of the Province of Santiago de México was held at the San Alberto Magno Priory in Mexico City. The event gathered lay fraternities from across the Province to reflect, deepen their formation, and strengthen the Dominican lay vocation in today’s world.
On 6 September 2025 at 11am, the Roman Catholic Church will solemnly proclaim the beatification of Mgr Eduard Profittlich as a martyr on Freedom Square (Vabaduse väljak) in Tallinn (www.profittlich.eu). On 4-5 September, on the occasion of this historic event, the Dominican friars and lay members of the Dominican Fraternity Fra Angelico in Tallinn will organise an uninterrupted public reading…
On June 24, 2025, Father Nuno Duarte da Silva Queirós was elected, at the International Assembly in Rome, as the first International President of the Priestly Fraternities of Saint Dominic for a three-year term.
The 13th Asia-Pacific Dominican Common Study took place this year in Indonesia, hosted by the Dominican Province of the Philippines. It opened on 13 July in Lembang and concluded on 2 August 2025 in Jakarta.
During the first semester of this year, two zones of the Latin America and Caribbean region held student meetings, each with its own distinctive character according to the objectives set. The Latin America and Caribbean region is organized into four zones: Southern Cone, Bolivarian, Mesoamerica, and Caribbean. Each organizes various activities in areas such as formation, missionary collaboration, and other gatherings.
On Saturday, July 26, 2025, the Holy Mass celebrated at 6:00 p.m. in the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva by Cardinal Baldassare Reina, the Pope’s Vicar General for the Diocese of Rome, marked the official opening of the program of veneration for the incorrupt body of Pier Giorgio Frassati, a layman of the Dominican Third Order. His body was brought for the first time to Rome from the Cathedral of Turin on the occasion of the Jubilee of Young People.
For the first time in the eight-century history of the Order of Preachers, the Dominican Laity now have their own Ratio Formationis et Studiorum, an official framework to guide their formation and study. The seed for this landmark initiative was planted at the International Congress of Lay Dominican Fraternities held in Fatima in 2018, when Br. Vivian Boland, then Socius of…
Draw a Chapter participant and pray with us. From late July to early August, provincials, vice-provincials, and other Dominicans from around the world will gather at the Holy Trinity convent in Kraków to participate in the General Chapter — the most important assembly of the Order of Preachers. It is here, under the leadership of the Master of the Order, Br. Gerard Timoner OP, that the friars will collectively discern what serves…
