On 28 December 2022, the friars of the Province of France, re-elected Bro Nicolas Tixier, OP as Prior Provincial for the next four years.
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Dear Fr. Timoner: We understand that the Dominican Month of Peace for 2022 focuses the Dominican Family’s attention on the present situation in Myanmar. In your letter to the worldwide Order, you wrote; ‘Our sisters and brothers in Myanmar have been subjected to atrocities and human rights violation which has gone unreported in the main media. Recently, the military broke…
On 27 December 2022, the Provincial Chapter of the Dominicans of Belgium and The Netherlands, has elected brother Didier Croonenberghs as new Prior Provincial.
1st Reading Isaiah 52:7-10 Responsorial Psalm Psalm 97 2nd Reading Hebrews 1:1-6 Gospel John 1:1-18 Let us walk in the light “Alleluia, alleluia on Christmas Day!” After walking the Advent journey together with the people of Myanmar, where we have become aware of their reality that touches our hearts and gestated the need to commit ourselves to accompany them. Together…
Rome, November 29, 2022 The CIM meeting finally took place in person after the Covid-19 crisis and a Zoom meeting last year. We met with great joy and hope in the Lord of Life, in the “Casa El Rosario” of the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation, in Rome from the 8th to the 16th of November. We had not been…
1st Reading Isaiah 7:10 – 14 Responsorial Psalm Psalms 23 2nd Reading Romans 1-10 Alleluia Psalms 85:8 Gospel Matthew 1:18-24 Advent is a liturgical season that calls us to Christian hope, trusting in the promise of the Most High to come to us soon to bring us salvation. But how difficult it is to preach about hope to the people…
On 7 August 2022, the electoral and deliberative General Assembly of the Dominican Secular Institute of Orleans elected its new General Superior and General Council for a six-year term. For the first time in the history of the Institute, a Polish woman—Agnieszka Kuryś—now heads the institute. The assembly was held in Angers, France, from August 5 to 10 this year.…
1st Reading Environmental Protection “Do not trust in princes, beings of dust that cannot save; they breathe out the spirit and return to dust, on that day their plans perish” (Psalm 145).The words of the psalmist are as forceful as they come. All the more reason why they resonate in the hearts of so many millions of innocent people subjected…
1st Reading Isaiah 11:1-10 Promises, promises, promises! Isaiah’s vision of the peaceable kingdom is a veritable litany of promises. Impossible things will happen to those who are faithful, to those who believe. What are we to make of these glorious promises when our brothers and sisters in Myanmar are mired in suffering? Their agony challenges the imagination of those of…
September 16, a large weapon fell on Moe Thao Pagoda ,Moe Bre city, in Shan State.
September 16, At around 1 p.m., military helicopters, MI-35s, swooped down from the sky and opened fire on their target with their machine guns.
September 18, a female physician, 18 years old, stepped on a mine set up by the military council and died in Demoso Town, Kayinni state.
September 19, the military council troops burnt down around 50 houses in Nyangdung West village, Myain Towinship in Magway Division.