‘Meditations on Truth’ is the title of the latest book by Fray Felicísimo Martínez Díez, OP, published on 12 March 2025. In this work, Brother Felicísimo offers a series of meditations on truth and addresses his search for it in specific areas of life, proposing the figure of St Thomas Aquinas as a reference point for the defence of truth and as an example that serves as inspiration to believers and non-believers alike.
The volume, edited by the art historians Émilie Roffidal and Claire Rousseau, is dedicated to the iconography of St. Thomas Aquinas –an important figure in the history of the Order, the Church and intellectual history– on the occasion of his triple jubilee: 700 years since his canonisation, 750 years since his death and 800 years since his birth, celebrated from 28 January 2023 to 28 January 2025. Nine contributions by various authors deal with the beginnings and spread of the iconography of St. Thomas and the historical-spiritual context in which such representations were disseminated.
The International Commission of the Dominican Youth Movement (IDYM) gathered for its annual meeting in Rome, held at Santa Sabina on February 21-23. Among those present were: Carlos Beltrán, International Coordinator of IDYM; Cristina Expósito, IDYM’s Promotor of Formation; Humberto Rico, Promotor of Communications; and fr. Cristóbal Torres, OP, General Promoter of the Dominican Laity, who serves and accompanies IDYM and the International Commission. In attendance virtually were: Isioma Chukwuka-Nwodo, IDYM Promoter of Finance; Wilson Amado, IDYM Promoter of Mission.
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.
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,…
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…
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…
Isolde Cambournac has published a book on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the birth of the Angelic Doctor
“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 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.
