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 […]
Let me inform you that during the Year of our Jubilee we prepared and published the booklet of The Fundamental Documents for Saint Dominic’s Hungarian Lay Dominican Fraternities. The goal of this project was to put a compass into the hands of people on our way, following in the footsteps of Saint Dominic. You can […]
Pie XII: Discours aux membres du IIe Congrès international du Tiers Ordre de Saint-Dominique 29 août 1958 Le vendredi 29 août, les participants au 2e Congrès international du Tiers Ordre de Saint-Dominique ont été reçus en audience par le Souverain Pontife, qui leur a adressé en français le discours suivant : En un temps où […]
Pope Pius XII: Address to the 2nd international Congress of the Third Order of St. Dominic August 29, 1958 At a time when the Church is inviting her children everywhere to awaken to their apostolic responsibilities, it is a great joy for us, dear children, to be able to greet you on the occasion of […]
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 – […]
In the western world, as a consequence of a decline in the number of professed religious over the past few decades, many convents and priories have closed and there is no longer a guarantee of the ready availability of a Dominican community that can support groups of Dominican-minded laity. Indeed, it is increasingly difficult for […]
Rev. Fr. Rui Carlos Antunes e Almeida Lopes, OP, Promoter General of Dominican Laity, had joyous meetings with the Lay Dominicans of Indonesia, Singapore , Timor Leste, and the Philippines. On September 29 – October 3, 2016 some 200 Lay Dominicans of Jakarta, Jogjakarta , Pontianak, Cirebon, and Surabaya of Indonesia had a National Retreat in Jogjakarta. […]
