📅 Tuesday, October 7
📍 Saint-Dominique Church – 175 Grande Allée West, Quebec City
“The Rosary in Marian apparitions” by Brother Lamphone, o.p.
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 )
From left to right: Mr. Brett Alexander Marshall, Mr. Andrew Jacob C. Heakes and, Mr. Andrew Angelo Antes
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
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.
A fraternal gathering with the rising generation at the Montagne de l’Horeb in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts brought together friars for a moment of listening, discernment, and hope in response to the calls that lie ahead
Queen of Peace Monastery – Squamish BC
Inauguration ceremony for the new St. Albert the Great priory. Montreal, Qc.
The Chapter Experience of the Order and the Synod
Testimony of Bro Carlos Alfonso Azpiroz Costa, OP, Archbishop of Bahía Blanca
Bro Carlos Alfonso Azpiroz Costa, OP, Archbishop of Bahía Blanca, Argentina, who participated in the work of both sessions of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, and Mission,” presents us with some insights for Dominican and synodal life in an extensive article that we are publishing in two parts. However, you can read or download the full article here.
