In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Dominican Province of the Philippines as the 41st Province of the Order of Preachers, Br. Filemon I. dela Cruz, Jr., OP, the Prior Provincial, received the Profession of Most Reverend Jose F. Cardinal Advincula, Jr., DD, the Archbishop of Manila. During a Rite of Profession on 11 December 2021, at 7 o’clock…
First Monastery of the Order in Spain to Pass under the Vigilance of the Master of the Order. The vigilance of monasteries is governed by Canon Law. In the 2018 Instruction Cor Orans (Praying Heart: CO) on the application of the Apostolic Constitution Vultum Dei Quarere (Seeking the Face of God) on women’s contemplative life, this vigilance has been revised and adapted to the…
A God on Man’s Trail A winter school for Dominican friars An Ideal Location Istanbul is the place where two continents and many cultures meet. In the city with three names (Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul) and located among three seas (the Marmara Sea, the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus) you can stroll among the remnants of ancient Roman palaces, gorgeous…
After nine years at the head of the diocese of Oran, the Dominican friar, Bishop Jean-Paul VESCO, was appointed by Pope Francis to head the metropolitan archdiocese of the Algerian capital, (27.12.2021). He succeeds Archbishop Paul Desfarges, who has reached the age of retirement . Algiers has a new archbishop. Born in Lyon in 1962, Jean-Paul Vesco joined the Dominican order…
Since February of the present year 2021, some diocesan priests from Colombia and Venezuela have been meeting virtually every two weeks in order to orient themselves towards a Dominican priestly fraternity. Their interest in the charism of the Order of Preachers has been encouraged by their closeness to the friars and to the women congregations of the Order, of which…
On May 16, 2021 ( Sunday), the International Council of Lay Dominican Fraternities (ICLDF) held a fraternal meeting with the Asia-Pacific Council of Lay Dominican Fraternities (APCLDF). The Regional meetings initiated by the ICLDF are meant to strengthen fraternal collaboration in the preaching mission, and to foster closer relations and graced inspiration shared with one another. The Asia-Pacific Council of…
On 6 August, the Dominican Family celebrated not only our father St Dominic, but also the jubilee of one hundred years of the presence of the friars preachers here! The term “family” is not used lightly in this case, but is essential, so great was the joy that brought the celebrating members together. Many were reluctant to leave – those…
In a process that took four years of preparation, the establishment of a Dominican fraternity for diocesan priests formally began in the Province of St. Martin de Porres in the USA with the admission of its first members on two separate occasions. On 31 May 2021, Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, at St. Dominic Church in New…
On June 26, 2021, the Master of the Order, Brother Gerard Francisco Timoner, III, OP, erected and integrated the Monastery of the Blessed Sacrament, Ilorin, as a monastery of the Order. He arrived Nigeria on June 24. Early the next day, the Provincial of the Province of St. Joseph the Worker, Nigeria and Ghana, Brother Richard Ogedengbe, OP , the…
After the erection of the Monastery ofthe Blessed Sacrament, Ilorin, the Master of the Order, Brother Gerard Timoner, O.P., accompanied by his Socius for Africa, Brother Charles Ukwe, O.P., undertook a fraternal visit to the Province of St. Augustine, West Africa from June 28 – July 1. They visited St. Dominic Convent, Abidjan,Cote d’Ivoire, a formation community, where they met…
