The following homily was preached during a liturgy by the Master of the Order which took place during the Inter-European Meeting of the Order of Preachers (IEOP). The meeting is held annually the week after Easter and was hosted this year in Vilnius, Lithuania. One of humanity’s great afflictions is forgetfulness. Because we forget the lessons we have learned, we…
Rome — On February 2, the Master of the Order, fr. Gerard Francisco Timoner III, OP, formally established the Permanent Multidisciplinary Commission on Safeguarding, implementing a mandate of the General Chapter of Krakow and reaffirming the Order’s commitment to the protection of the vulnerable, accountability, and healing. In his decree, the Master recalls that fidelity to the Dominican vocation as…
Feast of the Presentation of the Lord Rome, 2 February 2026 Prot. n. 70/26/035 Varia_General To the Prioresses of Dominican Monasteries DEAR SISTERS, With joy, I greet you and all the sisters as the Church celebrates the World Day of Consecrated Life. On this day of thanksgiving, we recognize anew the beauty of lives given wholly to God for the sake…
The following homily was preached by the Master of the Order, fr. Gerard Francisco Timoner III, OP, on the occasion of an annual Mass for deceased members of the Dominican Family. We are gathered around the Eucharistic table to give thanks to the Lord for the gift of life and vocation of our dear deceased brothers and sisters. In this…
The Master of the Order on the Trail of the Dominican Martyrs in Ireland “Today we gather on holy ground,” said Br. Gerard Francisco Timoner III, OP, Master of the Order. “Not because of marble or gold, not because of a great cathedral, but because faith was lived here with courage. This rock, hidden in a Kerry wood, once served…
It is one of the lesser-known Marian apparition sites in the world – but a very impressive one! It follows the pattern of so many others: in a small and completely inconspicuous place, in the midst of one of the worst famines the area has ever endured, the Mother of God appears to very simple people – and the hierarchy…
ROME — Pope Leo XIV has released his first apostolic exhortation, “Dilexi te” (“I have loved you”), a call to place the poor at the center of the Church’s life and mission. Signed on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the text insists that faith and love for the poor are inseparable. The Master of the Order of Preachers,…
