Reconciling Memories – Shaping a New Future: The Experience of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland As the war in Ukraine continues to cause profound suffering, displacement, and loss, the Dominican Family is invited to reflect on how our tradition of preaching can contribute to healing and reconciliation. In this spirit, the Dominican Family will host a webinar on 16…
For the first time in the region, friars from the four Provinces of the USA working in the university chaplaincy gathered together on May 28 to 31, 2024, at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Long Island, New York. Gathering a total of 33 friars, the assembly was an event one year in the making by a team composed…
#Influencersop, “Voices of hope for peace”. The first digital preaching series on Instagram has concluded. From 13 May, feast of Our Lady of Fatima, to 24 May, feast of the Translation of our Holy Father Dominic, the first phase of the #Influencersop preaching campaign, “Voices of Hope for Peace”, took place. Nuns, sisters of apostolic life and friars participated in this first phase. The…
A la celebración asistió la Presidenta de la República de Malta, Myriam Spiteri Debono
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The Liturgy Commission of the Order (CLIOP) met for its annual session in Rome, from 3rd to 5th June. The group was hosted at Santa Sabina by the Socius for Fraternal Life and Formation, Fr Juan Manuel Hernández, OP who is the commission’s link with the Master and the General Council. The principal items on the agenda were the projects…
Fourth International Congress on the History of the Order in America and First Meeting of American Dominican Archivists to take place in Mendoza, Argentina, 2025 The Fourth International Congress on the History of the Order of Preachers in America and the First Meeting of Dominican Archivists in America will take place in Mendoza, Argentina, from the 28th to the 30th of May 2025. The goals of the gathering are to deepen the…
On 21 May 2024, the Vatican Post Office and Philatelic Office issued a postage stamp to commemorate the 750th anniversary of the death of Saint Thomas Aquinas, on 7 March 1274. The series issued by the Vatican, with a print run of 44,000 stamps, was produced at the Royal Joh. Enschedé in the Netherlands. Each sheet consists of ten stamps, in four-colour offset, 30 x 40 mm. Saint Thomas…
The annual meeting of the European promoters of the Dominican Order of Justice, Peace and Creation took place in Lisbon, Portugal, from June 24 to 28, 2024. The gathering was attended by Brother Aniedi Okure, OP (Santa Sabina), Brother Javier Aguilera, OP (Spain), Brother Stephen Cummins, OP (Ireland), Brother Antoine de la Fayolle, OP (France), Brother Günter Reitzi, OP (Austria), Brother Ivan Attard, OP (Malta), Brother Rui Manuel Gracio das Neves, OP (Portugal), Brother Francis Amponsah, OP (The Netherlands), and Brother Alessandro Cortesi, OP (Italy).
On July 6, 2024, the Dominican Province of the Philippines and the University of Santo Tomás in Manila hosted “Reinvigorate: Strengthening the Role of the Dominican Laity in Preaching the Gospel,” a national congress for the Dominican Laity, with keynote speakers fr. Jamshed Gill, OP, Socius for Asia-Pacific, and fr. Cristóbal Torres Iglesias, OP, General Promoter for the Dominican Laity.
