ST. DOMINIC’S PRIORY NEW WEBPAGE

ST. DOMINIC’S PRIORY NEW WEBPAGE

ST. DOMINIC’S PRIORY NEW WEBPAGE


Jesus said to his disciples:

“Go out to the whole world; proclaim

the Gospel to all creation” (Mk 16:15)

 

Some months ago, in 2010, St. Dominic’s Priory inaugurated quietly a new webpage: www.dominicansmacau.org It is a simple page that wishes to share with others the life, mission and work of the members of the Dominican community – students of theology, formators, educators, teachers and preachers.

Macao-Dominicans’ webpage is structured into different sections, including at present the following: Bulletin Board, About Us, News, Preaching, Spirituality, Message of Hope, and Gallery Archive.

As we continue the journey of life, we hope to add other sections to include more stories, reflections, news on our life, interests, and loves.

St. Dominic’s Priory is a Dominican community composed at present of twenty three (23) brothers from different countries: seventeen (17) simply professed students of theology, and six (6) Dominican priests dedicated to formation, education, teaching and preaching.

We invite our brothers and sisters to visit us, and, perhaps, share with us their story and stories. We are deeply grateful for your visit, your understanding, and your kindness. We also need your prayers to go on – slowly, but firmly and joyfully. Indeed, tomorrow will be better, if we begin today! God bless us all! (FGB)

 

 

Karuna and partners continue quake aid

Karuna and partners continue quake aid

Karuna and partners continue quake aid

Likely to be at least a year before hard-hit Shan State recovers fully 

ucanews.com reporter, Yangon
Myanmar
April 1, 2011
Catholic Church News Image of Karuna and partners continue quake aid
Quake damaged government run school in Tarlay, the most affected area in Shan State

The Catholic Church’s relief team of Karuna Myanmar will continue relief efforts in 13 villages seen to be the hardest hit by last week’s earthquake in the north of the country in collaboration with the local operations of World Vision, Red Cross and other partners.

Nyi Nyi Soe, projector director of Disaster Risk Reduction for KMSS (Karuna Myanmar Social Services) in Yangon, who is working in the quake affected areas, said Karuna had made a joint assessment with 10  other NGOs and that Karuna will take care of the 13 worst affected villages.

“We will be the key player in those 13 targeted villages and help the victims with whatever we can do for them but World Vision Myanmar will now take over the leading role,” said Nyi Soe.

A series of earthquakes in northeast Myanmar and north Thailand March 24 and 25 killed at least 120 people according to independent reports although government figures remain at 74 deaths and 125 injuries.

A report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on March 30 said at least 18,000 people in 90 villages have been moderately or severely affected. The Myanmar Red Cross Society (MRCS) reports 3,152 people are homeless.

The Karuna team is arranging temporary shelters for some 100 victims in the village of Thiri and around 50 victims in Kaw Kawt village, not so far from Mong Lin village, one of the hard hit places according to Nyi Soe.

Nyi Soe said that these people, unlike the Nargis victims, considered the shelter as just a place to rest and sleep and they all go for their work in the morning and back only in the evening.

Nyi Soe told ucanews.com by phone on March 31: “As we are not ready yet to help the victims with a housing program, we will find out how to help the victims according to the situation of their damages.”

Dr. Soe Moe Aung, the project director of HIV/AIDS in KMSS, said as many as half the villagers are suffering from diarrhea and some have skin problems, colds and coughs.

Receiving donations is another task of the Karuna team.

It has opened donation centers in the parishes and is accepting food, drinking water and cash for the victims.

“Our first priority now is distributing food items, drinking water and kitchenware which they received from the donors,” said Claudia Ko Win Myat, the coordinator of the health sector in Karuna Kengtung.

Trauma healing will also be another priority for the quake victims.

The majority of the people who experienced the earthquake seem to be scared and they are afraid to go into the buildings, said Win Myat, and there have been trauma cases in some villages “so we need to do trauma healing to the victims.”

He claims it will take a year for the quake survivors to get back to normal condition.

 

POPE BENEDICT XVI RECEIVED THE MASTER OF THE ORDER IN PRIVATE AUDIENCE

POPE BENEDICT XVI RECEIVED THE MASTER OF THE ORDER IN PRIVATE AUDIENCE

 

POPE BENEDICT XVI RECEIVED THE MASTER OF THE ORDER

IN PRIVATE AUDIENCE

 

On March 11, 2011 His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, received the Master of the Order and his Vicar in a private audience. The goal of the meeting was to talk to the Pope about the main themes addressed by the last General Chapter and about the status of the preaching of the Order at the on-set of the Master’s mandate. During the meeting, the Pope asked many questions about our placements, formation, our Provinces’ teaching engagements, and the general situation of the Order by individual regions. At the time when a new Pontifical Council has just been appointed, the Pope highly encouraged the Order to keep working on those dimensions of our charisma of friars preachers, which best contribute to the evangelization. He specially highlighted the following dimensions: careful attention to the life-search and the spiritual quest of our contemporaries; the importance of studying and teaching Theology in line of the solid tradition of reflection initiated by Thomas Aquinas; Theology’s essential spiritual dimension; the vital bond between Theology and worship; the particular challenge to Theology posit by the dialogue with new cultures and sciences – a clear sign of our relation with the world; the role of statistics in evangelization; appropriate care given to the human, religious and theological dimensions in initial formation; and the hope that our evangelizing efforts will give our contemporaries the possibility and the joy of a personal relationship with Jesus. (IDI, April 2011 – N° 491)

 

THE MASTER OF THE ORDER OF PREACHERS VISITS

ST. DOMINIC’S PRIORY

Fr. Bruno Cadoré, OP, Master of the Order of Preachers visits the Dominicans of Our Lady of the Rosary Province in Macau and Hong Kong on January 18-22, 2011. The program of the visit to St. Dominic’s Priory and Studentate in Macau is as follows:

January 18 (Tuesday):

  • 18:00   Arrival, Hong Kong International Airport
  • 21:00   Arrival in Macau and Greetings to the Community at St. Dominic’s

 

January 19 (Wednesday):

  • 06:30   Meditation and Morning Prayer
  • 09:30   Meeting with the Provincial and Formation Councils (Saint Paul School)
  • 12:30   Lunch
  • 15:00   Meeting with Students
  • 18:15   Evening Prayer  and Eucharist
  • 19:00   Dinner
  • 20:30   Socials

January 20 (Thursday):

  • 06:30   Meditation, Eucharist with Morning Prayer
  • 09: 30   Visits to School of Christian Studies, University of Saint Joseph
  • 10:30   Visit to the Bishop of Macau
  • 11:30   Short Macau Tour
  • 12:30   Lunch

 

 

 

UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH CELEBRATES ITS PATRON

UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH CELEBRATES ITS PATRON

UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH CELEBRATES ITS PATRON

The University of Saint Joseph (USJ) celebrated the Feast of its Patron Saint, Joseph, with a Mass presided by His Excellency Msgr. José Lai, bishop of Macau, on March 18, 2011 at the main auditorium of the University. Eight priests from the secular clergy and religious congregations, including five Dominicans, concelebrated the Eucharist. Seventeen Dominican students of St. Dominic’s Priory in Macau animated the Mass with lovely religious songs. The holy Eucharist was attended by about one hundred professors and students.

In his homily, bishop Lai underlined some significant points of the life of Saint Joseph, in particular, the holy saint as the faithful guardian of Jesus, the loyal husband of Mary, and the universal patron of the Church. The bishop added that “Saint Joseph is loved by the people of Macau, where we have also “the Seminary of Saint Joseph, the Catholic School of Saint Joseph, and many people are named St. Joseph.”  He closed his brief homily by calling the faithful to follow the saint’s example of humble holiness, good work and silent witnessing.

Before closing the Eucharist, Father Joao Eleuterio, coordinator of the School of Christian Studies of the University of Saint Joseph, thanked all the faithful present, in particular the kind bishop and the choir. He added another important point of the life of the Saint: Saint Joseph

helped Jesus, the Son of God and the Son of Mary, grow up as a child and a young man. “May we all, particularly professors and members of the administration help our young students to grow up in maturity, knowledge and compassion.”

The simple Mass closed with a beautiful hymn of Saint Joseph, Holy Patron Thee Saluting:

“Happy Saint, in bliss adoring,

Jesus, Savior of mankind,

Hear thy children, thee imploring

May we thy protection find.”

The University of Saint Joseph is the Catholic University of Macau. (FGB)

Many USJ pofessors and staffs attended Mass

Dominican Brothers

Fr. Felicisimo op, Fr. Lionel op, Fr. Jarvis op

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fr. Fausto Gomez op, Fr. Joao Eluterio(USJ, coordinator the school of christian studies of the USJ) concelebrated Mass

Macau diocesan Bishop Joseph Lai Homily

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let us pray for Japanese.

Let us pray for Japanese.

Let us pray for Japanese.

A crying woman sits on a road in the devastated city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, Sunday following a massive earthquake and tsunami that are feared to have killed more than 10,000 people. [REUTERS/YONHAP]