On Saturday, 7 December 2024, Mons. Jean-Paul Vesco, OP, Archbishop of Algiers (Algeria), Mons. Francis Leo, Archbishop of Toronto (Canada), and Fr Timothy Radcliffe, OP, were created Cardinals by Pope Francis at the Ordinary Public Consistory in St. Peter’s Basilica. In his homily, Pope Francis urged the new cardinals to follow the way of Jesus, emphasizing the importance of returning…
The Philippine Province’s Provincial, Br. Filemon I. dela Cruz Jr., OP, celebrated the laying of a foundation stone for a formation house in Indonesia, a project initiated in 2016 by Fr. Gerard Timoner III, OP, with Dominican leaders attending the ceremony.
After the Ordinary Public Consistory on December 7th, 2024, during which they received the cardinal purple from Pope Francis, the new Cardinals Jean-Paul Vesco, OP, Archbishop of Algiers (Algeria), and Timothy Radcliffe, OP, received the embrace of the Dominican Family in Rome, at the Angelicum and at the General Curia.
On December 14th, 2024, Cardinal Frank Leo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto, presided the Eucharist in the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of his priestly ordination. He celebrated together with the Dominican Family, to which he has a strong bond, since he is a member of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Dominic. Indeed, he made his perpetual profession as a tertiary priest of the Order in the same Basilica on May 11th, 2008.
Isolde Cambournac has published a book on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the birth of the Angelic Doctor
Flowers were offered next to the relics of St Thomas Aquinas, on behalf of all the Dominican fraternities and lay people around the world. From 2 to 5 October 2024, I had the honour of being invited to the Rosary Pilgrimage in Lourdes to give a lecture on Saint Thomas Aquinas entitled ‘The greatest of miracles: when God crosses history,…
Adore Te Devote, to humbly express faith in the Body and Blood of Christ in a theological, poetic and musical sense. Adoro te devotete, latens Deitas,Quae sub his figuris vere latitas:Tibi se cor meum totum subicit,Quia te contemplans totum deficit. Hidden God, I devoutly worship you,You who are truly present under these forms:before You my heart submits itself completely,for when contemplating You…
The provincial priors, vice-provincials, and provincial vicars of the region, organized through the Interprovincial Conference of the Dominicans of Latin America and the Caribbean (CIDALC), met from February 9th to 15th in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The assembly was held at the Emmaus House of St. Benedict’s Monastery. The region is composed of six provinces: St. Augustine in Argentina and Chile, Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas in Brazil, St. John the Baptist in Peru, St. Louis Bertrán in Colombia, St. Vincent Ferrer in Central America, and St. James in Mexico; two vice-provinces: St. Catherine of Siena in Ecuador and Bolivia; and three provincial vicariates: Fray Antón Montesino in Uruguay and Paraguay, Venezuela, and Fray Pedro de Córdoba in the Dominican Republic and Cuba.
“Strengthening ourselves in Grace to attain the Eternal Prize” : Towards the Holy Year with Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati. On Saturday, November 30th, 2024, in the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome, a time of prayer and adoration took place, under the title “‘Strengthening ourselves in Grace to attain the Eternal Prize’. Towards the Holy Year with Blessed Pier…
On Saturday, 14 December 2024, the Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati Fraternity of the Province of Poland gathered at Fort VII to pray for peace in union with the entire Dominican Order. December is a month of Dominican prayer for peace. In this year we remember first and foremost Haiti, a republic whose inhabitants have been experiencing multiple forms of violence for…
