50th Anniversary of the Caribbean Parish in Toronto

Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish – Caribbean-Canadian Catholic Church in Toronto

Siyahamba — “We Are Marching in the Light of God.”

Happy Thanksgiving !

Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Caribbean parish with Bishop Kasun.

Founded in 1975, Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish was placed under the pastoral care of the Spiritan Fathers of Trinidad and Tobago, as well as the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena from Port of Spain, Trinidad.

Many thanks to the Dominicans of Toronto for their participation in this beautiful celebration.

Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary

Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary (with the Dominican family)

📅 Tuesday, October 7

📍 Saint-Dominique Church – 175 Grande Allée West, Quebec City

Conference

“The Rosary in Marian apparitions” by Brother Lamphone, o.p.

Program

5:30 p.m. – Vespers
5:50 p.m. – Optional dinner (bring your own)
6:30 p.m. – Marian conference
7:30 p.m. – Meditated rosary
8:00 p.m. – Solemn mass
8:45 p.m. – Torchlight procession
9:15 p.m. – Final blessing

Feast of Our Lady

Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati

Dear friends, Saints Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis are an invitation to all of us, especially young people, not to squander our lives, but to direct them upwards and make them masterpieces. They encourage us with their words: “Not I, but God,” as Carlo used to say. And Pier Giorgio: “If you have God at the center of all your actions, then you will reach the end.” This is the simple but winning formula of their holiness. It is also the type of witness we are called to follow, in order to enjoy life to the full and meet the Lord in the feast of heaven. ( HOMILY OF POPE LEON XIV, September 7, 2025 )

Entering the Novitiate – Vancouver

Mr. Andrew Jacob C. Heakes and Mr. Andrew Angelo Antes

General Chapter in Krakow

General Chapter in Krakow, Poland, from July 17 to August 8, 2025.

The Master of the Order, Br. Gerard Francisco Timoner III, OP, presents the corresponding Relatio, in which he highlights several aspects, such as “The Call of the Jubilee,” emphasizing that the Order is celebrating the General Chapter in Krakow during the Jubilee Year of the Lord 2025; the “Commemoration of the General Chapter of Madonna dell’Arco”; “Dominican life as the indispensable foundation of our apostolic mission”; “Vision and priorities for realizing the Propositum Ordinis”; and “Dominican Mission In Medio Ecclesiae”. In relation to this last point, the Master of the Order asks the General Chapter to discuss and propose concrete strategies on how to apply the Propositum Ordinis to the following themes: “Missio ad gentes—to those who do not know Jesus (Acts 17:23)”; “Mission to deepen the faith of believers (Lk 1:1–4); ”Mission to those who have fallen away from the Church or those on Her margins (Lk 24:13–32)”; and “Mission to young people”.


08-MAR-2025 Relatio MO Krakow 2025 EN

European Novices Meet in Caleruega

The meeting of the European novitiates is currently taking place at the birthplace of St Dominic in Caleruega. For one week, the almost 50 European novices are gathering to pray together, listen to spiritual impulses and get to know each other.

It is obligatory to drink from the spring that originated at the birthplace of St Dominic. This is intended to bring new vocations to the order.

In his sermon, the Master of the Order recalled that the novitiate is the time to rest like the favourite disciple at the heart of Jesus and to listen to his heartbeat – and at the same time to open their eyes to what is happening in the world to which they will preach in the future. Like St Ignatius, who was converted while reading St Dominic’s biography, St Dominic’s life is a moment of conversion to Christ, for whom he was completely transparent.