Benjamin Ekman OP 🗿ꙮ

Anders Piltz har skrivit en mycket bra artikel om dominikanernas 800-åriga historia i Skandinavien, som vi firar i år. Eftersom jag grävde fram lite arkivmaterial han använde i artikel anser jag mig ha rätt att bjuda er på den. Men in och prenumerera! signum.se

Per ipsum, et cum ipso, et in ipso. First Sunday Mass deaconing back home in my parish in Lund, Sweden. Where I was received into communion with our Mother the Hierarchical and Roman Church.

My diaconal ordination in Strasbourg, July 6th, through the laying on of hands by archbishop Pascal Delannoy of Strasbourg, and cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco of Algiers. "Fidelis Deus: per quem vocati estis in societatem filii ejus Jesu Christi Domini nostri" (1 Cor. 1:9)

Did I travel for 18 hrs across The Continent from Strasbourg to Hamburg to Copenhagen to Lund carrying all this on busses and trains to leave behind with the brothers in Sweden, almost breaking my back in doing so? Why yes. Noah's ark didn't build itself.

Yesterday I got to deacon for my brother Rémi-Michel for his 1st mass (of the angels) with our nuns of Orbey. And he asked me to preach (with little time to prepare). We all did our pre-noviciate retreats with these sisters, a special place. Please pray for vocations to Orbey!

Presque 3H30 de liturgie mais tout est grâce… félicitations à la famille dominicaine !!!

A glimpse from today's deaconal ordination. Being dressed in the dalmatic by one of our elders, brother Bernard Dominique Marliangeas.

FYI: the Aquinas institute Latin-English Summa fits snugly in a Samsonite trolley bag. Am deconstructing my Fribourg existence before moving to Cairo. Will leave this in the shelves of our community in Lund.

My chosen sister in Rome sent me some essentials for the deacon ordination in Strasbourg cathedral the coming Sunday 🥰

Memorizing deacon stuff before ordination on Sunday