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 forward, we move forward with hope and joy as we enter the beautiful season of Advent … Veni veni Emmanuel…
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Rome, 20 December 2020
Prot. 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 joy may be complete.
I John 1:1,3-4
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Christmas, whether in a time of pandemic or prosperity, is a celebration of the inscrutable nearness of God who dwellswithin and among us; a thanksgiving to our generous God who gives Himself as gift.
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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 (2017), the Democratic Republic of Congo (2018) and India (2019), the Justice and Peace Commission of the Order of Preachers has chosen this year to turn attention to the efforts of the Dominican Family in Ukraine in favour of peace.
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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.
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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).
