The course on Dominican Preaching and Life closed with a lecture of the Prior Provincial of Our Lady of the Rosary Province and a shared evaluation of the participants. The course opened at our Priory on February 16, 2013 and closed on June 8 with the Solemn Vespers for the Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Fr. Javier Gonzalez, OP, Provincial closed the series of lectures with an overarching talk on Dominican Preaching. Facilitated by Fr. Jose Luis de Miguel, OP, Moderator of the Center of Institutional Studies of the Province, the enlightening and pace-setting course on Dominicanism was held every Saturday of the week and was attended by about forty people, including our Dominican students and the aspirants of the Congregation of Dominican Missionaries of the Rosary.
The Dominican audience considered the cycle of lectures very positive for their lives. Other similar series of lectures on other important and relevant topics related to Dominican life, history and mission will follow in the years to come. The main topic for next academic year will come out of the individual and group evaluation of the series just ended.
In a related matter, the series of lectures on the Year of Faith and Vatican II organized by the Faculty of Christian Studies of the University of Saint Joseph (USJ), Macau was closed on May 30, 2013 with a lecture on the Vatican Decree on the Laity or Apostolicam Actuositatem by Fr. Joao Eleuterio, Dean of the Faculty. The audience was composed mainly of our Dominican students and the aspirants of the Dominican Missionaries of the Rosary, plus some members from other religious congregations and USJ professors and students. This series of 28 theological lectures began on October 12. Next academic year a new series will be organized by the same Theology Faculty on Christian Initiation, this time with a monthly lecture.