New General Promoter of Laity 

New General Promoter of Laity 

PROMOTOR GENERALIS PRO LAICATU ORDINIS Juan Ubaldo LÓPEZ SALAMANCA, O.P. br. Juan Ubaldo López Salamanca is the new General Promoter of Laity The Master of Order, Fray Gerard TIMONER III, has appointed Fray Juan Ubaldo López Salamanca, as General Promoter of the Laity. He is the son of the Province of San Luis Bertrán of Colombia and succeeds Fray Rui…

New General Promoter of the Rosary

New General Promoter of the Rosary

The Master of the Order, Brother Gerard Francisco TIMONER III, appointed on October 7th, 2019, the feast day of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary, brother Lawrence LEW, O.P., as General Promoter of the Rosary. Fr. Lawrence LEW, O.P. was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, into an evangelical Protestant family. Formed by the brothers of the De La Salle Christian…

BIÊN HÒA ACTS 2019

BIÊN HÒA ACTS 2019

ACTS 2019 After having celebrated the Elective General Chapter of the Order of Preachers in Biên Hòa (Vietnam, 2019) the Acts are published. You can access the original PDF version at this link.

The Church’s ‘mea culpa’ must be genuine | Aaron Zahra

The Church’s ‘mea culpa’ must be genuine | Aaron Zahra

The Church’s ‘mea culpa’ must be genuine | Aaron Zahra Rocked by over a decade of child abuse scandals, the Catholic Church is in the process of renewing its structures and policies. Fr Aaron Zahra – abbot of the Dominican Priory in Vittoriosa, and author of a dissertation about sex abuse in Catholic schools – argues that the Church has…

The Rosary

The Rosary

The Rosary Many saints and community founders have jealously felt a certain pride in saying that he had received of the Virgin Mary herself the responsibility to preach and to spread the practice of recitation and devotion of the Rosary. A 17th century pope would even have asked that we stops this competition. All this to say that devotion to…

The face of Saint Dominic

The face of Saint Dominic

The face of Saint Dominic Carved by Fr Felicísimo Martínez Díez, O.P. We know fr Felicísimo because he is an artisan of reflection on religious life and evangelization in today’s world. Few of us know the art of wood carving, to which he devotes himself especially during his holidays. Today, St. Dominic’s carved wooden face is surrounded by a large…

2019 ANNUAL REGIONAL ASSEMBLY – OP LAITY REGION IV

2019 ANNUAL REGIONAL ASSEMBLY – OP LAITY REGION IV

“Tracing the Roots Back to the History of the Order” is the theme of the 2019 Annual Regional Gathering of the Dominican Lay Fraternities of Region IV held in the Daragang Magayon Hall of the University of Santo Tomas – Legazpi last August 11, 2019. Expounded in the most comprehensive yet unsophisticated manner by the General Promoter of the Dominican…

Celebrations in the Vicariate of Burundi-Rwanda

Celebrations in the Vicariate of Burundi-Rwanda

From August 07 to 19, 2019, the Dominican friars of the Provincial Vicariate of Rwanda and Burundi met in Rwanda where they celebrated various happy events together. On August 07 2019, in the convent of St. Dominic of Kigali, during the 6pm Mass with vespers, six young people including two Rwandans, two Burundians and two brothers from the Provincial Vicariate…

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