I was asked by this evening’s organisers to talk about ‘faith in a time of fundamentalism.’ If I had a Latin mind, I would begin with a definition of ‘fundamentalism’. That is the beauty of the Roman mind, the clarity of bright sunshine. But I am an Anglo-Saxon from the grey north, and we creep […]
Original article published on the site of the Friars of the Roman Province The recent final document from the Synod of Youth includes important openings to the digital age: recognition of a new historical epoch and the need to under take specific studies in order to understand it. §21 states firmly: “The digital environment is characteristic of […]
The following article was published in this week’s edition of Famiglia Cristiana(Christian Family), a very popular Italian magazine. St Dominic, the preacher who defeated the heretics with the Rosary A Spaniard from Castille, he founded the Order of Friars Preachers based on itinerant preaching, mendicancy, a series of observances on monastic lines and deep study. […]
(Homily on word.op.org, 14 February 2018) Gospel reading: 6:1-6,16-18 ‘Beware of practising your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. ‘So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in […]
“My dear brother, please tell your friends to go into the garden, and I will bring their daily sustenance there”. The speaker was St Martin de Porres, whose feast day this is; his interlocutor was a mouse who had taken up residence in the priory of the Holy Rosary in Lima, Peru, where Martin was […]
The tenth Assembly of European Lay Dominican Fraternities was held in Fatima, Portugal from 4 to 8 October, with more than 50 participants representing 35 Provinces and Vicariates. A large hotel run by Dominican Sisters, less than fifteen minutes from the Sanctuary, was “home” for these five days: not only did everyone sleep and eat […]
HOMILY ON WORD.OP.ORG 17.08.2017 Matthew 18:21-19:1 21 Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?” 22 Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times. 23 “For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be […]
Translation of the article “Il card. Parolin: Giorgio La Pira, grande operatore di pace” on the Radio Vaticana website on 17 luglio 2017 “The Word of God was the source and criterion of his judgment”. His gaze was focused on the “needs of the poor”. His commitment as a legal expert, politician, mayor of Florence […]
The European Council of Lay Dominican Fraternities (ECLDF) has just announced the program for the 10th Assembly of European lay Dominicans, to be held in Fatima from Wednesday 4 to Sunday 8 October this year. Fatima has been much in the news recently: this year is the centenary of the encounter there of three Portuguese […]
Our faith has its basis in an absence. The fullness of our spiritual life is the fruit of an emptiness. The King we serve is crowned with thorns, has been beaten and scorned and spat at, has been enthroned on a cross. He opens his arms in the gesture of embrace, only to be nailed […]
