Life of the Order

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).

Vocation Promoters meet to initiate more harmonious vocation promotion at the level of the Order. A meeting of the Order’s Vocation Promoters, organised by the General Curia through the Socius for Fraternal Life and Formation, took place from 17 to 22 June. The vocation promoters came from different regions where the Order is located and met at the Casa La…

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…

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 16 July, Dominicans for Justice and Peace (UNOP) and the Dominican Family for Justice and Peace and the Care of Creation, Philippines (DFJPCC) will release the handbook Climate Change and Human Rights Education for Youth in the Philippines (CCHRE). The CCHRE provides an overview of how climate change affects human rights, with a special focus on the situation in…

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…

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…

Novicios europeos en Caleruega

A la celebración asistió la Presidenta de la República de Malta, Myriam Spiteri Debono