Dominican Jubilee

This year the Order of Preachers (Dominican Order) is celebrating the Jubilee Year of the 8th Centenary of the death of St Dominic de Guzman in 1221.

In this year that marks the eighth hundredth anniversary of St Dominic’s death, I gladly join the Friars Preachers in giving thanks for the spiritual fruitfulness of that charism and mission. Seen in the rich variety of the Dominican family as it has grown over the centuries.

My prayerful greetings and good wishes go to all the members of that great family, which embraces the contemplative lives and apostolic works of its nuns and religious sisters, its priestly and lay fraternities, its secular institutes and its youth movements.

May the celebration of the Jubilee Year shower an abundance of graces upon the Friars Preachers and the entire Dominican family, and usher in a new springtime of the Gospel. With great affection, I commend all taking part in the Jubilee celebrations to the loving intercession of Our Lady of the Rosary and your patriarch Saint Dominic, and cordially impart my Apostolic Blessing as a pledge of wisdom, joy and peace in the Lord.

                                                                                                                                                                            Pope Francis

The Dominican Sisters and Friars in Australia and New Zealand mark this solemnity on Tuesday 3 August. A Jubilee Mass in honour of St Dominic has been planned. However, because of COVID restrictions, the Dominican Family in Sydney is unable to come together for the Eucharist in St Mary’s Cathedral.

The Mass will still be celebrated on Tuesday 3 August at 7.00 pm and will be livestreamed. All are invited to join the Dominican Family in prayer: https://youtu.be/ZNUIVr8f2IY