Dominican Vocation of Trinbago

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS - The People's Priest Archbishop Anthony Gordon Pantin August 27, 1929 - March 12, 2000 (A Sunday Guardian Tribute - 19.3.00) Anthony Gordon Pantin was born in Port of Spain in August 27, 1929, the second son of Julian Andrew Pantin, a business executive and his wife Agnes, nee Mazeley. He received his primary education at Sacred Heart School and Belmont Intermediate School (now the Belmont Boys’ Secondary RC School). From the latter he won a Government Scholarship, (called a Government Exhibition in those days) to St Mary’s College. Also among the group of Exhibition winners from that school was Ellis Clarke who would become first President of independent Trinidad and Tobago. He also took part in sports, playing cricket and football and was a member of the Sixth Trinidad Sea Scouts, under the direction of the saintly Fr Cristobal Valdez. At St Mary’s, Anthony Pantin was in the top academic ...

The Solemn Profession of fr Nicholas Crowe, OP. On Sunday 16th September in the church of the Priory of the Holy Spirit, Oxford, during Mass, Brother Nicholas Crowe made solemn profession, consecrating himself to God and committing himself ‘until death’ to follow Christ in the way of life laid out by St Dominic and enshrined in our constitutions, as a friar preacher. Nicholas chose to add ‘Paul’ as a religious name, after the great apostle whose writings St Dominic carried around with him. We were joined by Nicholas’ family and many of his friends. After the church celebration, we continued to celebrate in the refectory, enjoying food and drink and especially everyone’s good company, love and conversation. Nicholas has done a lot of work with young people, including a key role in establishing a weekly theology discussion group for young people (also including food, prayer and fraternity) and an annual theology summer school. Many of the young people he has worked with ...

September 19 - 1846: Apparition of Our Lady of La Salette, France. Authencity confirmed by the Bishop of Grenoble in 1851. The Apparition of La Salette (II)

This month we turn our attention to "Aging Gracefully" . This week's Spotlight with hosts, Fathers Chip Hines and Bill Kelly reviewed the movie Hope Springs. Check it out, it was authentic, thoroughly engaging and right out of the experience of the priesthood and the Church. Both Fr Chip and Fr Bill are pastors of active parishes in the Archdiocese of Boston and we appreciate their time and talent making Spotlight a meaningful resource for media reviews

Concept of the official logo for the Year of Faith            CONCEPT OF THE LOGO The logo is composed of a square, bordered field on which a boat, symbolizing the Church, is represented as sailing on a graphically minimal representation of waves. The main mast of the boat is a cross from which sails are displayed in the form of dynamic signs which compose the trigram of Christ (IHS). The background to the sails is a sun which, associated with the trigram, refers also to the Eucharist.

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