Reflection for the third Sunday of Lent 2021 “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up” (John 2: 13-25) On the third Sunday of Lent, we meet the angry Jesus. His anger is caused by the desecration of the dignity of the...
Reflection for the second Sunday of Lent 2021 There are those moments, when I feel frozen. Not able to move. My mouth half open and my eyes big as the moon. Moments when time seems to stop, but that go away way too fast. Some may think I write about...
Reflection for the first Sunday of Lent 2021 It can stop now, I can see where I can go, freedom, I can do whatever I want, no more being on my best behaviour, no more forgiving those who cross me, no more mister nice guy, I’ll get even with him, by...
O God, our Creator, Redeemer Paraclete, in prayer we lift our praise, our blessing, our preaching. And this opens our Jubilee prayer, as a Dominican this first and opening line lifts our heart, our gaze, our life, our soul and our very being to God...
After the American prison in Norfolk, a Belgian prison also has a Dominican lay fraternity, supported by Lay Dominican Ludovic Namurois, Provincial President. Working on the periphery is characteristic of Dominican spirituality, for example with...
Dear brothers and sisters in St. Dominic May God our Father give you Grace and Peace. cf-1Cor As you know we leave behind us a Liturgical year that has been challanging and frought with sadness and pain, loss and suffering, but we look...
Rome, 20 December 2020Prot. 50/20/614 Letters to the Order What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes… and touched with our hand concerns the Word of life…made visible; Him we preach…so that our...
from 29 November to 1 January 2021 The annual Dominican Month of Peace highlights peace-building projects which the Dominican Family has set up in a chosen country. After having organised solidarity events throughout the world in favour of Colombia...
In October Duncan MacLaren, Lay member of the International Dominican Justice and Peace Commission (IDJPC) attended the annual meeting of this commission. Of course was this a virtual meeting because of the pandemic.
In 2018 and 2019 the Dominican family supported projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in India during the period of the Advent. A report of the results from the International Dominican Commission for Justice and Peace (IDCJP).