(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 […]
The Hungarian Lay Dominican Nikolett Murányi had been meditating on writing a Eucharistic Creed during the last 20 years, and finally this year she prepared it. A group of theologians corrected and approved this text. You can find it below in 9 languages. Nikolett writes in an explanation: ‘I think that Jesus Christ’s true and […]
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 […]
Why Become a Member of the Lay Fraternities of Saint Dominic? by Mrs. Faith Flaherty, O.P. Why be a Lay Dominican when I can become a Lay Cistercian, Secular Franciscan, Carmelite, or a Benedictine Oblate?[1] Even Alcoholics Anonymous offers a Spiritual AA. The answer is certainly personal, but the definitive response would be because of […]
On 29 April, His Eminence Cardinal Walter Kasper presided at the celebration of the solemnity of St Catherine of Siena in the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. This is the text of his homily. Read the full article on website of the Roman Province of St Catherine of Siena Homily for the […]
TODO ESTÁ CUMPLIDO (Jn 19. 30) Predicación elaborada por la Sra María Isabel Serrano Guarguatí, O.P. en el marco de la celebración de la Semana Santa del año 2017, predicada el Viernes Santo en Templo de Cristo Rey, Bucaramanga, Colombia. Licencia Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivar 4.0 Internacional. Permisos que vayan más allá de lo cubierto por […]
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 […]
In a recent article on the Order’s website, Br Llewellyn Muscat presented the life of Elisabetta Leseur, a lay Dominican whose amazing, intense life led to her husband’s conversion to Christianity. It is the figure of this woman that will be the subject of the second meeting in Rome in the context of “Portraits of […]
Spanish – English CUARESMA Vivimos en un momento difícil. Es constatable la crisis de valores que se dan en nuestra sociedad. Todo parece relativizarse. El hombre parece que deja de creer en que las cosas han de tener un sentido más allá de la realidad cotidiana en que todo es negociable. Se desconfía sistemáticamente de […]
Fr. Augustine Hilander, OP, presents the Holy Name Society, where he’s acting as National Spiritual Director The Confraternity of the Most Holy Names of God and Jesus (Holy Name Society – www.nahns.com) promotes reverence for the Sacred Names of God and Jesus Christ, obedience and loyalty to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and the personal sanctification and […]
