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.
The SMI Board met in person in Rome last May (4-6).
During the sessions were presented: the report of the year 2021 (ACG Trogir, 2013, 203), the new Statute of the Fund for Initial Formation (ACG Biên Hòa, 2019, 228); approved by the Master of the Order and his Council in November 2021 and the report of SMI to the General Chapter of Tultenango 2022.
Convent San Sisto (Rome), 28 December 2019 “If the superior is concerned about dialogue with her sister, she is taking care of her vocation,” says Fr Gerard Francis TIMONER III, O.P. Master of the Order. Gerard was invited to give a conference on religious life at the event “Creation: a project of God’s love for humanity” held in Rome from…
The ceremony was held on the 29th of April 2022 at the Tom and Carolyn Walker Hall, Dominican University in Ibadan. It began with the celebration of the Holy Mass at the Dominican Chapel and was presided by Rev. Fr. Modestus Ngwu, OP, the Prior Provincial of the Province of the St. Joseph the Worker in Nigeria and Ghana. In…
As of Monday May 30, the Dutch and Belgian Dominicans will form one province. This will take place by the reading of a decree by the Master of the Order Fr. Gerard Francisco Timoner III OP who will visit the Netherlands for this occasion.
In 2019, the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Manila, Philippines, was selected as one of the 14 local antennas across 13 countries for an undertaking sponsored by the Fondazione Pontificia Gravissimum Educationis on “Democracy: An educational urgency in pluricultural and plurireligious contexts.”
The Brothers of the Vicariate of Rwanda and Burundi Celebrate Their First Vicarial Chapter On February 14-18, 2022, about twenty solemnly professed brothers from the three communities of the Provincial Vicariate of Rwanda and Burundi (Kigali, Bujumbura and Nyagatare) met at the Marie Reine de la Confiance Center in Bujumbura (Burundi) for the first time in a statutory Vicarial Chapter. …
Right at the heart of the birthplace of the Dominican Order’s founder, nineteen newly elected and re-elected Priors Provincial and Priors Vice Provincial spent ten days of fruitful workshop with the accompaniment of the Master of the Order, Brother Gerard Francisco Timoner III, OP, and members of the General Curia from March 15-24, 2022. Hosting the annual activity this year…
With the official approval from The Dominican order, UNESCO will now start the stabilization and rehabilitation of The Conventual Church of Our Lady of the Hour in Mosul With the official approval from The Dominican order, UNESCO – in close collaboration with relevant authorities – will now start the stabilization and rehabilitation of The Conventual Church of Our Lady of…
Dominican Nuns Launch First International Website Summit, New Jersey–The Nuns of the Order of Preachers, commonly known as the Dominican Nuns, launch their first international website, www.monialesop.org, in order to make their mission of prayer within the heart of the Order of Preachers better known. St. Dominic de Guzman founded the Nuns of the Order in 1206, ten years before the…
