SIMPLE PROFESSION OF 6 BROTHERS!
PREPARATIONS FOR THE JUBILEE 800 OF THE ORDER
In a recent meeting, the Provincial Council approved
the following points related to the preparations
for the 2016 celebration of the Jubilee 800
of the Order of Preachers
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1. Plan of the Order. The Order has drawn a well detailed plan to commemorate the 800th year anniversary of the foundation of the Order. The Jubilee 2016 is seen as important in our lives. (Cf. Program details in the website of the Order).
2. Provincial Plan. The Prior Provincial informed that recently Fr Fausto Gómez has been appointed as Provincial Promoter or Coordinator for the Jubilee 2016. He is coming out with some particular ways to celebrate that particular event, maybe through some Conferences, etc. He is persuaded that for the Jubilee to be meaningful there must be AWARENESS, KNOWLEDGE (of our sources) and METANOIA (interior renewal).
Another important point to remember, and as suggested by the Provincial Promoter of the Jubilee, the preparations for the Dominican Jubilee should include members of the other branches of the Dominican Order, that is, of the whole Dominican Family.
3. Organization of Special Courses and Lectures. As the 2013 Provincial Chapter  recommended, courses similar to those of “Viday Misión†(Life and Mission) and “Predicación dominicana†(Dominican Preaching) be organized at the Provincial level and “be held on the occasion of the Jubilee 2016, so that the friars may enter into contact with the doctrinal and spiritual tradition of the Order†(Provincial Chapter 2013, Acts, 175).The Provincial Council recommended that a Formation Course similar to the one successfully held in Avila in the summer of 2011 be organized for our young Dominicans; this course will be complemented with pilgrimages to landmark Dominican places in Spain, France and Italy.
                           
4. A Great History Project. Given the need of a textbook on the History of the Province, Fr Provincial Javier proposed the following:
a) The translation into English of Fr. Pablo Fernández’ Dominicos donde nace el sol (Dominicans Where the Sun Rises).
b) The writing of the History of the Province through the Past 50 Years.
After a sharing on the matter, the Council suggested that before the translation of Fr. Pablo’s book is undertaken, it would be better to review the literary style of the book and to prepare a compendium of the thick book. Fr Ãngel Daniel Blázquez could be invited to undertake the role of revising and preparing this compendium.
As for the writers of a short history of the last 50 years of each mission, this Council decided to kindly request it to the following Brothers:
For Venezuela, Bro. BenjamÃn; for Korea, Bro. Peter Yu; for Taiwan, Bro. Tomás Miguel; for China, Bros. Jarvis and Edmond; for Japan, Bro. Delgado or Bro. Saturnino; for Spain, Bro. Teodoro or Bro. Medina; for Myanmar, Bro. Fernando Muñoz; for Singapore, Bro. Antonio or Bro. Edmond; for the Philippines, Bro. Laurentino and Bro. Prol
Fernando Muñoz, OP,
Provincial Secretary
Kowloon Ton, Hong Kong: April 24, 2014
FR. SECUNDINO’S GOLDEN JUBILEE AS DOMINICAN PRIEST
Last Saturday, 17 May, the Community of St Albert the Great, in Hong Kong, programmed an Eucharist and a dinner to commemorate the Golden Priestly Jubilee of its Prior, Fr Secundino Vicente Zurdo. On that solemn occasion he was also accompanied by some brethren from St Joseph’s community (Kowloon) and St Dominic’s (Macau).
It was a very intimate, fraternal and touching celebration, during which we gave thanks to God for the gift of priesthood and to Fr Secundino for his 50 years of service and fidelity to the gift received. Fr Provincial had a simple, nice homily in which he referred the biblical readings to the significant moment of the celebration and had a special remembrance of the priests’ parents.
At the end, Fr Secundino thanked everyone as he read also the names of those Dominican brethren who were ordained on that same year 1964, some of them resting already in the Father’s House. The celebration was followed by a fraternal dinner complemented by a cake and the best of wishes.
CONGRATULATIONS, FR SECUNDINO VICENTE, IN THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF YOUR PRIESTLY ORDINATION!
(Fernando Muñoz, OP)
PRIESTLY ORDINATION OF OUR BURMESE BROTHER ISAAC
On the 27th of April our Burmese Brother Isaac Saw Aye was ordained priest in his native diocese of Loikaw, in Myanmar. Very few are the friars who can boast of having experienced the lying of hands of 12 bishops and of 230 concelebrant priests in the ceremony of ordination, as our Brother Isaac had on that day 27 of April. Of course, the reason why there were so many bishops and priests present on the occasion was not due to our Brother Isaac not to the two other priests who were also ordained with him, but rather to the fact that the Diocese of Loilaw commemorated its 25 Silver Jubilee and besides the taking of office of the new Bishop (Stephen) upon the retirement of the previous Bishop (Sotero Phamo). Both bishops know us very well and have been instrumental in the establishment of the Dominican Order in Myanmar.
Attending the ceremony was the Provincial, fr Javier Gonzalez, together with other three Fathers from Hong Kong and the members of the Dominican Family in Myanmar (our Brothers, with the group of postulants, and six Dominican Sisters Missionaries of Saint Dominic who are settled there).
As we rejoice with this event, we send our most heartfelt congratulations to Fr Isaac (the sixth Burmese Dominican from our Province) and to his relatives. To him we ask for his blessing and to God that He may keep him faithful to the priesthood that with so much joy he has just received.
Inauguration of the Fra Angelico Exhibition Hall — at Escola São Paulo 澳門è–ä¿ç¥¿å¸æ ¡.
Last Friday May 16, 2014 The Dominican administered Escola Sao Paolo blessed and inaugurated the Fra Angelico Exhibition Hall on the first floor of the REception Hall of the School. The Bishop of Macau led the guests and well wishers who congregated at the Foyer to commence the ceremony. Among the guests were delegates from the Education and Youth Department, School Principals of the Diocesan Schools, Fr, Provincial, Fr. Christopher Chor, Supervisor of Rosaryhill School, Fr. Peter Stillwell REctor of the University of Sao Jose Macau, faculty members, friars of the Priory and friends of the School.
The main aim of the hall is to nurture a space for the teachers, staff and students of the school as well as the city of Macau to express their artistic sentiments. The gallery hall is open every way and is open to the public.