Anniversary of Dominic’s Death
We are celebrating the anniversary of St Dominic’s death during the year January 2021 until January 2022. The theme of the jubilee celebration is At Table with St Dominic, which is inspired by the Mascarella table, the table on which the first portrait of St Dominic was painted shortly after his canonization. Thus we celebrate Dominic not as a saint alone on a pedestal, but a saint enjoying table fellowship with his brothers, gathered by the same vocation to preach God’s Word and sharing God’s gift of food and drink.
What does it mean for us to be at table with St Dominic here and now?
How does his life and work inspire and encourage us to share our life, our faith, hope and love, our spiritual and material goods so that others too may be nourished at this same table?
How does this table become a table for the breaking of the Word and the Bread of Life?
Inspired by the sacred image known as the “Mascarella” which shows Dominic, in the first known painting of him, with twenty-four friars from all over Europe.