Members of the Lay Fraternities of Indonesia from across the country gathered at St. Catherine Church in the Taman Mini Indonesia Indah complex in Jakarta, on July 13, 2024. On this occasion, they were visited by fr. Cristóbal Torres Iglesias, OP, General Promoter for the Laity.
Brother Cristóbal Torres, OP, General Promoter for the Laity, and Mrs Kathy Kendrek, OP, President of the Dominican Laity of the Province of St Joseph in the United States, toured St Joseph’s Province 3 – 10 June, visiting some of the many, diverse Lay Fraternities in the province. Mrs Kendrek and Br Cristóbal began on 3 June in Middletown, NY,…
From 7 to 15 August, on the official account of Ordo_Praedicatorum on Instagram, the videos of the second phase of the digital preaching campaign #Influencersop, centred on the figure of our founder St. Dominic of Caleruega, will be published. In this month dedicated to our Father St. Dominic, whose liturgical memorial is celebrated on 8 August, short videos will be published by influencers of…
From 14 to 20 July, at the Casa de Retiros Santo Domingo in Quito, Ecuador, the host country, the Meeting of Students of the Bolivarian Zone took place, bringing together friars from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. From the first day, the friars introduced themselves and shared their experiences, which fostered an atmosphere of fraternity and strengthened the bonds between the…
“The clamour of migrants demands attention from governments and challenges the Catholic Church and, in it, the Dominican Family”, reads the final report of the Justice and Peace Meeting on the theme “Migration, rights and human drama”, which took place from 21 to 28 July in Guatemala City. The report, signed by Sister Veronica Agurto, OP, Secretary of CODALC[i] and Bro…
On August 8th, the feast of Our Father Saint Dominic, the Provincial of France, fr Nicolas Tixier, OP, and the president of the Lay Dominicans of the Province of France, Jean René Berthélemy, received in the House of Saint Catherine of Siena in Tallinn the promises of five Estonian lay Dominicans who will now form a new Dominican lay fraternity…
In the afternoon of 14 August 2024, His Excellency, Most Rev. Agustinus Agus of the Archdiocese of Pontianak, Indonesia, was received in the Priestly Fraternities of St. Dominic by Br. Filemon de la Cruz Jr., OP, Prior Provincial of the Dominican Province of the Philippines. Born in Lintang, Sanggau, West Kalimantan, on 22 October 1949, Abp. Agus was ordained priest…
From June 3 to 4, 2024, the first assembly of Provincial Promoters of the Priestly Fraternities of St. Dominic in the US took place at the Priory of St. Dominic in Washington, DC. Participating in the meeting were fr. Augustine Hilander, OP (Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus), fr. David Seid, OP (Province of St. Martin de Porres),…
The Center for Dialogue with Cultures and Religions in Asia (CDCRA), an activity that is under the supervision of the Master of the Order and is currently housed in the Center for Theology, Religious Studies and Ethics, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, co-hosted the conference on God and the World: Dialogues on Culture, Religion and Science last June 26-28, 2024. The conference was held…
The Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Name of Jesus and the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena reflected on Master Eckhart’s interpretation of the Gospels. From July 30 to August 4, in Villa San Ignacio (Buenos Aires), the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Name of Jesus and the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, together with…
