Dominican Family
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A Year of War — We Walk With Our Ukrainian Sisters and Brothers
February 9, 2023
In July 2020, the Dominican family was invited to join in solidarity with Ukraine to celebrate the Dominican Month of Peace. Fr. Gerard Timoner, the Master General, wrote: Even in the midst of the escalation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the war with Russia and separatists still rages in the eastern Donbass region since April 2014. […]
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The Church in Myanmar, Dominican Month of Peace
December 8, 2022
The Catholic Church in Myanmar (also known as Burma) is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. There are around 750,000 Catholics in Burma – approximately 1% of the total population. The country is divided into sixteen dioceses including three archdioceses. Catholicism has never been easy in […]
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An Update from Our Dominican Family in Ukraine
March 21, 2022
March 13, 2022 Dear sisters and dear brothers, It’s already been a couple days since my last letter. This interruption doesn’t mean that something tragic has happened to us. Quite the opposite. I finally managed to travel to Fastiv. I had already started missing the conversations with my brothers Misha, John, Paul, and Igor, and […]
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Dominican Month for Peace 2021 — We Pray for Venezuela
November 23, 2021
A Video Introduction to Venezuela Join us in Prayer Sunday, November 28 begins the fifth annual Dominican Month for Peace. After joining forces to help our Dominican family in Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, and Ukraine, we now turn our attention to Venezuela – the country […]
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Creation Care as an Act of Radical Hospitality, Season of Creation 2021
September 1, 2021
Today, September 1, begins the Season of Creation, a month-long ecumenical call to practice creation care as an act of radical hospitality, safeguarding a place for all creatures, human and more human, in our common home. Today is the World Day of Prayer for Creation, a “feast day” established by Pope Francis in 2015 to […]
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Join us Praying for Peace in Ukraine During December
November 19, 2020
As we have in past years, we will move through Advent holding in prayer, study, and service our Dominican Family. We are called this year to be conscious of the mission and ministry in the Ukraine. So, we begin with the invitation from Fr. Gerard Timoner, the Master General along with a general introduction to […]
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Dominican Call to Justice–Think Globally, Act Locally, A Reflection with Lisa Mitchell
November 7, 2018
I am a member of the National Dominican Associate Directors (NDAD) which meets annually at one of the congregations of our Dominican Family. I just returned from Sparkill, New York, where we met from October 26-28. This is a time for the directors to share information and to talk about issues affecting Associates and Sisters. […]
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Megan McElroy Reflects: Dominican Preaching Network at European Colloquium on Preaching
October 24, 2018
The week of September 28 – October 5 I had the opportunity to spend in Cologne, Germany, as a participant in the European Colloquium on Preaching sponsored by the Dominican Preaching Network. Greg Heille, OP, Sara Fairbanks, OP (Adrian), and I were invited representatives from Aquinas Institute of Theology, which is one of the three […]