DOMINICAN LAITY Newsletter #16 May 2011 Dear members of the New Zealand Dominican family This newsletter is a little later than planned – as usual, other things intervened. One was the death, on Easter Sunday, of Fr Terry Dibble in Auckland. Terry was not a Dominican but he might as well have been! Theologian, community builder, social activist, a man who “spoke the truth to power”, Terry was one of whom Church and state authorities might well have said, “Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?” And his funeral, in a crowded St Pat’s Cathedral, with a cardinal and two bishops, might well have been, as eulogist Pat Snedden said, a moral victory for Terry! May he who died on Easter Day share in the Resurrection of Christ. We note also the recent death of Sister Imelda, in Invercargill. A reflection on the life of Sr Imelda will be printed in the next newsletter. On a more cheerful note, we welcome the arrival of Fr Luke Rawlings OP to join the friars in Auckland. EASTER MESSAGE From David Kammler OP, Friar Promoter of the laity. Convento Santa Sabina (Aventino) Piazza Pietro d’Illiria, 1 – 00153 Tel.: (39) 06-57940-657 ROMA, ITALIA Email: laici@curia.op.org   Dear Sisters and Brothers, Here is a quite challenging Easter picture of the Gospel story of John 20, 19-29 painted some centuries ago by an anonymous Italian. From the Dominican point of view, rather than artistically depicting St. Thomas and the apostles meeting the Risen Christ,
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