Upcoming Mission
DOMINICAN TRIP TO USA June 2012 Kindly sponsored by a Generous Benefactor Three Sisters from the Dominican Sisters of Wanganui will be travelling to the United States in order to attend the June ordinations and … Read more
DOMINICAN TRIP TO USA June 2012 Kindly sponsored by a Generous Benefactor Three Sisters from the Dominican Sisters of Wanganui will be travelling to the United States in order to attend the June ordinations and … Read more
TOUT EST GRÂCE, is what we have been hearing again and again at our Spiritual Conferences lately. All is grace – whether it is opening the mail to find you have received a substantial grant … Read more
It’s the same every year – Ash Wednesday comes along and one feels oneself girding the proverbial loins for a long, hard forty days. We want it to be the Best Lent We’ve Ever Done, … Read more
Bonum est confiteri Domino: et psallere nomini tuo, Altissime Ad annuntiandum mane misericordiam tuam: et veritatem tuam per noctem (Ps 91: 2-3) It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to … Read more
Some 600 years ago, Piero della Franseco painted “The Resurrection”, a fresco that for centuries has challenged men to choose between the spiritual and material spheres of life. The style he chose for execution was … Read more
Hosanna Filio David: benedictus qui venit in Nomine Domini. O Rex Israel: Hosanna in excelsis. O Rex Israel! On Palm Sunday, the Church, the mystical Israel, views her meek king riding upon a gentle beast. … Read more
March 17 is a special day in the Australian calendar, and not only in Catholic ones –your average calendar purchased from the post-office or supermarket will usually feature the words ‘St Patrick’s Day’ in bold … Read more
“O God, through whom Thy Church is glorified by the wonderful learning of Thy blessed Confessor Thomas and profiteth still from his holy labours: grant we pray, that we may grasp his teaching with our … Read more
With but fourteen friars, trusting in the grace of God, which he felt to be with him, and encouraged by the approbation of the Vicar of Jesus Christ, St Dominic, who had inculcated in his … Read more