“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 […]
This is the transcript of the first part of the lecture held by fr Rui Lopes op at the ISSR Mater Eccelsiae – Angelicum on “The origins of the Lay Dominican Rule” The first reference to what today we call the Dominican Laity bore the name of “Order of Penitence”. Today the Dominican laity is […]
Fr Prakash Anthony Lohale op had the opportunity to interview Guido Van Damme on his biography of Fr Pire op, Nobel Peace Prize. Fr Prakash is the immediate past Socius for Apostolic Life, who served from 2008 to 2014. He is from the Province of India. In honour of his predecessor, Fr Chrys, he coedited a […]
These’s a short version in English of a much longer article in Norwegian recently completed for a forthcoming book. How miss Marie Knudtzon T.O.P. made it her life’s work to found a Dominican monastery in Oslo together with fr. Ambrosius Lutz O.P. They became friends in the sanatorium of Grand Hôtel Leysin 1905-1907 (where the film […]
La Orden de Predicadores celebrará un Jubileo para conmemorar la publicación de las Bulas promulgadas por el Papa Honorio III hace ocho siglos confirmando la fundación de la Orden en 1216 y 1217. Ofrecemos la traducción del texto de la Bula “Religiosam Vitam” del Papa Honorio III, fechada en Roma el día 22 de diciembre […]
Aujourd’hui, le 22 décembre, nous célébrons le 800ème anniversaire de la confirmation de l’Ordre des Prêcheurs par le Pape Honorius III. Après avoir établi le premier monastère de moniales Dominicaines en 1206, Dominique rassembla un groupe d’hommes pour commencer une mission unique de prédication. Les moniales quant à elles, priaient pour le succès de la […]
Today, 22 December marks the 800th anniversary of the confirmation of the Order of Preachers by Pope Honorius III. After establishing the first monastery of cloistered Dominican nuns in 1206, Dominic gathered a group of men to begin a unique preaching mission as the nuns prayed for the success of the mission. In 1206 in […]
Sigrid Undset was conceived in Italy, born in Kalundborg 20 May 1882 and grew up in Kristiania (Oslo) as the eldest of three sisters. Her mother was Danish, her father a Norwegian archeologist who died when she was 11. She was a unusually tall woman, and her big grey eyes had a strange look – […]
Posted by fr. Augustine Thompson op on Dominican Liturgy blog As some readers know, I am currently on research leave (commonly. but incorrectly. called “sabbatical”) from my teaching at the Dominican School of Philosophy in Berkeley. The project I have been working on will, I hope, result in a history of the non-ordained Dominican brothers. Today these […]
