Dominican Nuns Texas

10/05/2021

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The Cloistered Dominican Nuns Monastery of the Infant Jesus, Lufkin TX

07/29/2019

Dear Fans and Followers,

We are very grateful for your support, but we are no longer able to maintain this page. If you would like to keep up with the happenings at the Monastery you are welcome to subscribe to our monastery blog at: http://lufkintxcontemplativenunsop.blogspot.com/

May God bless you!
Your Dominican Nuns

07/19/2019

Our Vietnamese Dominican nuns were the first Dominican nuns to get to meet our new Master as Master. Here they are pictured with him and Fr. Joseph Dinh, the General Secretary of the General Chapter. The Vietnamese Province is doing a beautiful job hosting the General Chapter.

07/19/2019

2019 Raffle

For those of you on our mailing list, your raffle tickets are in the mail. Anyone is welcome enter. We just need your address and telephone number. No contribution is required, although appreciated. All proceeds will go towards our air conditioning project. The prizes are handmade by the nuns. The drawing will be on August 15.

07/19/2019

07/16/2019

07/13/2019

More about our new Master!

Filipino priest, Father Gerard Francisco Timoner III was elected Master of the Order of Preachers, or the Dominican Order, on Saturday, during the ...

07/13/2019

We have a Master: Father Gerard Francisco Timoner III, O.P., the 88th Master of the Order and the first Master from Asia! Father is from the Philippines.

Fr Gerard Francisco TIMONER, OP es el nuevo Maestro de la Orden de Predicadores
88º Sucesor de Santo Domingo.

Biên Hòa (Vietnam), 13 de julio de 2019
Hoy 13 de julio de 2013, después de la misa del Espíritu Santo, los frailes capitulares se trasladaron inmediatamente a la Sala Capitular para elegir al 88º Maestro de la Orden, cuyo oficio durará 9 años (2019 – al 2028).
TIMONER PARCO, Fray Gerard Francisco III, nació en Daet, Camarines Norte (Filipinas), el 26 de enero de 1968. Tiene 51 años. Hizo su primera profesión religiosa el 13 de mayo de 1989 y fue ordenado sacerdote el 14 de mayo de 1995.
Es elegido precisamente en Asia, la región para la cual está sirviendo como Socio del Maestro. En su tierra natal, Filipinas, se celebró el por primera vez un Capítulo General en Quezon City, en 1977 (Capítulo nº 276). Estamos celebrando por primera vez un Capítulo General Electivo en Vietnam, un país no católico pero con gran esperanza de vida para la Familia Dominicana y la iglesia.
Fray Gerard Francisco es bachiller en filosofia, Licenciado en Sagrada Teología, Magister en Teología. Fue elegido miembro de la Comisión Teológica Internacional, establecida desde 1969 por el Papa Pablo VI para examinar cuestiones sobre asuntos doctrinales, en particular de la Congregación para la Doctrina de la Fe.

07/12/2019

We have a prioress!

Yesterday, at 3:00 PM Bishop Joseph Strickland concelebrated the Mass of the Holy Spirit with our chaplain, Fr. John Lydon, O.P. He then presided over our prioral election. We elected Sister Mary Margaret of the Cross, O.P. as our 11th prioress. (Our prioresses are elected for three-year terms and can be immediately re-elected for another three years.) Please pray for Sister and all of us. The new prioress makes job assignments for the next three years.

07/08/2019

07/07/2019

We are all familiar with Saints Francis of Assisi and San Padre Pio on having the gift of the stigmata.

Get to know some members the Dominican Order who were also privileged to have been able to share in the Passion of Christ through his wounds.