Click HERE to view the photo gallery for Journeés Romain Dominicain 2009. In addition, a large version of the official group photo is attached to the bottom of the page. If you would like individual photos in even larger format than is available here, please email Scott Steinkerchner.
Les "Journées Romaines" ont commencé en 1956, peu de temps avant Vatican II, à l'initiative du fr. Georges Anawati, OP, et de quelques Pères Blancs, soucieux de promouvoir au sein de l'Eglise catholique une meilleure connaissance de l'Islam et de l'importance du dialogue inter-religieux. Ces rencontres ont eu lieu tous les deux à Rome jusqu'à au milieu des années 1990.
Jean Jacques Pérennès preached at morning mass and spoke of three qualities of St. Augustine that are important for us as preachers as well. Chrys McVey, of happy memory, also embodied these qualities.
(Chrys McVey OP died in June, and had an important motivating force behind JRD and interreligious dialogue in the Order for many years. At the beginning of Saturday morning, we remembered him with this poem)
The "Journées Romaines" began in 1956, a few years before Vatican II, on the initiative of a Dominican, fr. Georges Anawati, OP, and some White Fathers, who were willing to develop within the Catholic Church a better awareness of Islam and of the need of more inter-religious dialogue. These meeting use to take place ever second year