Jesus Today
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.”
Inspiration for today
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated..”
Maya Angelou
Dominican Thoughts
“A man who governs his passions is master of the world. We must either rule them, or be ruled by them. It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.“
Saint Dominic
TRINITY SUNDAY (B)
We celebrate today the Solemnity of the Most Blessed Trinity, or Trinity Sunday, which is the central mystery of our Christian faith. From the beginning of Christianity, the Trinity is always invoked – very frequently - in prayer. We have just proclaimed the Word of...
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ESTABLISHMENT 0F THE DOMINICAN LAY FRATERNITY
“TORCH OF MACAU” As a Dominican, I would say that I am always instigated by the dream of St. Dominic’s mother before she had him; “a dog jumped from her womb holding a torch and set everything around them on fire”. This kind of vision is not only impressive...
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– JOY –
We are celebrating Easter, the joyful day of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ – and of our own coming resurrection. St Paul tells us that “God, who raised up the Lord, will raise us also by his power (1 Cor 6:14; Col 3:1-4), and, in the Second Reading (Col...
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“He loved his own in the world, and He loved them to the end” (Jn 13, 1-15)
-The Mass of the Lord’s Supper we are celebrating, plunges us into the drama of the final moments of Jesus’ earthly journey. You can feel the tension of this “hour” of which John speaks in his Gospel. It is a sobering, even frightening time when danger lurks on the...
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BROTHER EDMUND EH SPEAKS AT THEO WEEK IN MANILA
The University of Santo Tomas, Manila, recently held its Theology Week 2018 on Church and Communion. A good roster of speakers facilitated the different plenary sessions. One of our brothers from Saint Dominic Priory in Macau was among the distinguished speakers....
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INTERVIEW ON OUR DOMINICAN LIFE St Dominic’s Priory, Macau
On February 21, a group of four Chinese secondary students from Escola São Paulo came to St. Dominic’s Priory and made a short interview with some of our student brothers about religious vocation and Dominican life. Five of our Brothers, from different countries,...
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Lecture in Honor of Saint Thomas Aquinas (University of Saint Joseph, Macao, 21st February 2019)
Every year around the feast day of St Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican friars in Macao organize a Lecture in honor of the Angelic Doctor. This academic activity is normally held at the Faculty of Religious Studies of the University of Saint Joseph, in Macau, and it is...
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