Polish Lay Dominicans celebrate

The lay Dominicans from Warsaw invited representatives of the Dominican Family for the common celebration. The occasion for the meeting was the pilgrimage of the image of St. Dominic through the European provinces of the Order of Preachers, as part of the year dedicated to lay Dominicans.

On Wednesday, 26 March, the lay Dominicans of the fraternity of Bl. Imelda Lambertini in Warsaw-Służew, visited to the convent of the cloistered Dominican nuns in Radonie near Warsaw. Then, in front of the image of St. Dominic, they prayed together the rosary and later on the Vespers.

Translated from Polish.

More on this celebration here.

Letter to the Order from the Master General: "The Dominican Laity and Preaching"

The Master's letter, dated 22 December 2014, is here and here.

500?

There are - or at least there were, in 2005 - 500 Lay Dominicans in Iraq.

How many now?

New General Promoter of Dominican Laity

fr Rui Carlos Antunes e Almeida Lopes

Our brother fr Rui Carlos Antunes e Almeida Lopes is the new General Promoter of the Laity, appointed by the Master of the Order for six years.

Fr Rui is from the Province of Portugal. He was born at Harare, Zimbabwe, made his first profession in the Order in 1981 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1985. He has a PhD in the Science of Documentation and Archives. Before his appointment, fr Rui was Archivist and Promoter of Dominican Laity in Portugal. He has also been a military chaplain and well as chaplain of the Sovereign Order of Malta and of the Secular Institute of Caritas Christi.

We wish our brother fr Rui every blessing on his work with Lay Dominicans worldwide.

Fr Rui succeeds fr David Kammler, who is going home to his Province of Teutonia. We thank our brother fr David for all his work in support of the Laity of the Order.

fr David Kammler

via op.org