On Pentecost Sunday (25 May) the Auckland Dominican Family gathered to share time with Sister Tran Thi Sam Marie Constance OP from Vietnam.  Sr Marie Constance is the Asia Pacific Representative on the DSI Council.  Also spending time with us was Sarah Hynes, volunteer from a Dominican College in Rhode Island USA.   Helen welcomed everyone and Susan offered a Mihi. After a short period of silence members of the Family shared how they connect with and live out the charism of Dominic .. following in Dominic’s footsteps, Dominic on his knees with the scriptures, seeking truth, trying to teach truth, Veritas, Justice and Peace, ministry to people of all faiths and people of no faith, contemplation, lay people finding the gift of preaching, the four pillars: respect, aroha, perseverance and unity, learning from Māori, respecting the earth, Dominic’s walking with joy through Europe, receiving faith from the Dominican Sisters, working with people of other nationalities, receiving a foundation of belief from the Dominican friars who inspire us to always question, working with refugees, supporting the rights and responsibilities of people, supporting those at Alcoholics Anonymous, studying the scriptures more deeply and more…. Helen invited Marie Constance to share something of her experience of the Dominican Charism: Marie Constance was overjoyed to be in Aotearoa New Zealand recalling memories of Sr Margaret and when she first met Fr Kevin Toomey back in 1994. Her connection with the Dominican charism came when she joined the Dominican Convent at age 8 years (grade
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