Br. SEBASTIAN MAKES SOLEMN PROFESSION

Br. SEBASTIAN MAKES SOLEMN PROFESSION

On March 10, 2013, Brother Sebastian Lee Skang Hoon, O. P., made his Solemn Profession within the Mass of the Fourth Sunday of Lent at our St Dominic’s Priory in Macau. Bro. Sebastian is from Korea.

The main celebrant of the Eucharist was Fr. Javier Gonzalez, O. P., Prior Provincial of the Province of Our Lady of the Rosary. Ten Dominicans and two secular priests concelebrated with Fr. Javier. The Chapel was fully packed. The faithful were members of the the Korean Community in Macau, the participants in our Sunday Masses, our Dominican Brothers and Sisters including the postulants, and friends of Bro. Sebastian and of our Priory.

Bro. Sebastian made his Solemn Profession for life before Fr. Javier, promising obedience to the Master of the Order, Fr. Bruno Cadoré, O. P. It was a joyful celebration animated by meaningful songs and prayers led by our Dominican brothers and Sisters.

The Province of the Holy Rosary rejoices! Little by little and consistently the number of brothers getting ready to be missionaries is growing. This month of March 2013, the Province rejoices also for the Solemn Profession of our Brother Paul, member of St. Albert Convent in Rosaryhill, Hong Kong; for the Ordination to the Deaconate of our brothers Philip Soreh and John Bosco, members of the House of the Most Holy Trinity in Rome, and Brother Juan Franco Pérez, O. P., member of the House of St. John Macias in Cáceres, Spain.

For so many blessings – and more to come -, thanks be to God!

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SOLEMN PROFESSION OF Br. SEBASTIANO LEE. O.P

SOLEMN PROFESSION OF Br. SEBASTIANO LEE. O.P

The Prior Provincial Rev. Fr. Javier González Izquierdo OP and the brethren of the Dominican Province of Our Lady of the Rosary request the honor of your presence to share with us this joyous occasion when our brother Sebastiano Lee Sanghoon OP will make his solemn profession as a friar preacher.
The profession will be held during the conventual Mass at Saint Dominic’s Priory, 39-41 Avenida Sidonio de Pais, Macau
on 10 March, 2013 Sunday at 11:00 in the morning.
A fraternal agape will follow after the liturgy
“THANK YOU, POPE BENEDICT XVI”, FR BRUNO CADORÉ, OP

“THANK YOU, POPE BENEDICT XVI”, FR BRUNO CADORÉ, OP

“Thank you, Pope Benedict XVI” fr Bruno Cadoré on behalf of the entire Dominican Family

Most Holy Father,

I ask you to accept the immense gratitude of the Order of Preachers for the great generosity and beautiful simplicity with which you have exercised your ministry, ‘a humble worker in the Lord’s vineyard’. The Brothers, Nuns, Apostolic Sisters, Lay Dominicans and the entire Dominican Family join me in assuring you of our communion in prayer and thanksgiving.

406199_170977019717589_772099504_nOn several occasions during your ministry, in the course of your teaching, you evoked some great figures of holiness that God by His grace has given to the Order of Preachers. It was for us a strong invitation to draw anew and constantly from the source of the charism of St. Dominic.

When you did me the honor of receiving me, you insisted that the Order should deploy its rich tradition of “study and worship” and take its place in the “new evangelization” to which you have invited the Church in continuity with the Second Vatican Council.

This reminder, I believe, provides us with the horizon in view of which we are preparing to celebrate, in 2016, the eighth centenary of the confirmation of the Order of Preachers. I ask you to assist us with your prayers, that the Lord may grant us the grace always to seeks always to serve the Church and its unity, “totally committed to the evangelization of the Word of God” as it was expressed by Pope Honorius III.

fr Bruno Cadoré, OP

Master of the Order-

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