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Visit of Apostolic Nuncio

6/27/2015

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On Friday, 22nd May, the Apostolic Nuncio to PNG and Solomon Islands, His Excellency Archbishop Michael Banach, did us the honour of visiting us for Vespers and dinnner.
Unfortunately we have no pictures of the liturgy - we were too busy praying! - but we began with the traditional Dominican welcome to a papal representative, offering him the Gospels to kiss, and the holy water with which to sprinkle the brothers while we sang - in this case, the traditional Dominican Regina Caeli (below).
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Then followed sung Vespers (in English, mostly,  with simple tones for the psalms, as we sing every evening), and the Rosary.

After prayers, we enjoyed a fine meal of baked fish and vegetables:

After dinner, the Nuncio shared a little about himself and his dual role - representing the Holy See as an ambassador to Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, and representing the Holy Father to the bishops and the Church in these two countries.  He answered many challeging and thoughtful questions from the brothers in a very open and direct manner.

Finally, we sang together the antiphon to St Dominic, O Lumen Ecclesiae.

A most enjoyable and educative experirence for us all!
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Discussion and question time.
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Singing the "O Lumen Ecclesiae".
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    Fr Martin Wallace has been assigned to Dominican College since February, 2009.

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