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Easter Vigil 2023

On the 8th of April 2023, Saint Dominic's Priory celebrated the Easter Vigil. This is the apex of the liturgical calendar and of all litrugical celebrations in the Church. For the first time since the COVID-19 Pandemic began, the Priory has been able to celebrate this...

Lecture in Honour of St Thomas Aquinas 2023

On the 28th of January, the feast day of our brother St Thomas Aquinas, St Dominic’s Priory organised a talk in his honour. The speaker this year was our own brother fr James Dominic Rooney, OP who is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and...

Eleven Brothers Receive the Ministries of Lector and Acolyte

It was a moment of great joy for the whole community that our beloved brother Prior Provincialvisited our Priory. Since his election as Prior Provincial, it was his very first time to have a canonical visit to us because entering Macau requires following strict...

Visitation of the Prior Provincial

The Prior Provincial of the Province of Our Lady of the Rosary, fr Ruben Martinez, visited Saint Dominic’s Priory during the month of November. He saw this visit as an opportunity to connect with his fellow brothers. He met with the brothers individually and shared in...

Renewal of Religious Profession

A yearly recurrent ephemerides at this community of St Dominic's Priory in Macau is the religious profession renewal of some of the student brothers. This year the event took place on 21 June. On that day, seventeen brothers, wearing their black and white Dominican...

60th Anniversary of Priestly Ordination of fr Fausto

June 14, 2022 marked the 60th anniversary of the priestly ordination of fr Fausto. The community Mass was presided by fr Fausto himself in commemoration of his ordination. In his preaching, he recalled different experiences during his vocation and used them to teach...

ASH WEDNESDAY 2022: Prayer and Fasting for Peace in Ukraine

This year 2022, the Ash Wednesday, which in the liturgical calendar marks the beginning of our Lenten journey towards Easter, was a Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace in Ukraine, as requested by Pope Francis. Here at St Dominic’s in Macau, the community Mass was...

25th Anniversary of the University of Saint Joseph

On Friday, 18 March 2022, the University of Saint Joseph in Macau celebrated its 25th Year Anniversary with a Mass in the Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady, presided over by the diocesan Bishop, D. Stephen Lee. The Rector of the University, Rev. Deacon Stephen...

Lecture in Honour of St Thomas Aquinas

In honour of St Thomas Aquinas, Fr Franz Gassner, SVD, the Dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies and Philosophy of the University of St Joseph, delivered a lecture entitled Quinque Viae Ethicae Oecologiae: Five Ways to Care for Our Common Home – Ecological Ethics...

Dominicans Close Jubilee 800 Celebrations

CLOSING OF THE 800 ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF OUR FATHER ST. DOMINIC On 6 January, 2022 the Dominican Family in Macau solemnly celebrated the closing Eucharist of the celebration of the 800 Anniversary of the death, dies natalis, of our Father St. Dominic....

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