A certain amount of interest has been expressed in seeing the names and faces of the contributors to Godzdogz.op.org. So here we are, from left to right, fr David Barrins from Sligo of the Irish Province, fr Romero Radix from Grenada of the English Province, fr David Rocks from Newry of the Irish Province, fr Dennis Murphy from Kilkenny of the Irish Province, fr Gregory Pearson from Norfolk of the English Province, fr Lawrence Lew from Malaysia of the English Province, fr Graham Hunt from Northampton of the English Province, fr Vivian Boland from Dublin, Master of Students, fr Robert Gay from Wales of the English Province, fr Daniel Jeffries from Portsmouth of the English Province, fr Martin Grandinger from Bavaria of the Province of Southern Germany and Austria, fr Mark Davoren from London of the English Province, fr Gregory Murphy from Dundee of the English Province (being uncharacteristically coy), fr Robert Verrill from Rugby of the English Province.
Please keep us in your prayers through the coming academic year and let us know if there are topics you would like us to speak about. There will be more 'quodlibetal questions', more memories of deceased Dominicans in November, more news about the Dominicans in Britain, more vocation stories about ourselves and other brothers in the Order - and there is a piece coming up about soccer teams (some of them quite famous) that wear black and white because of a Dominican connection. Do any of you know of any other use of Dominican colours in sporting or other contexts?
I believe the flag of Siena is black and white because of the Dominican connection and so too the flag of the Swiss canton of Fribourg.
ReplyDeleteDo you know about the link between Fr Dalmatius Houtmann OP and Newcastle United?
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ReplyDeleteSoccer/football teams (if any are wrong sorry!):
ReplyDelete-DC United of the MLS of the USA (my team!)
-Newcastle United, Notts County, Fulham, and Derby County of the EPL but of course you already knew that
Others I found on the Internet:
-Laçi of Albania
-Adelaide Force and Carlton of Australia
-Lask Linz, Schwarz-Weiss Bregenz, and Wiener Sportclub of Austria
-Torpedo of Belarus
-Royal Charleroi, KSC Eendracht, KSV Roeslare, Aalst, and Zwarte Duivels oud Heverlee of Belgium
-NK Tošk of Bosnia-Herzegovina
-Atletico Mineiro, Botafogo F.R., Ceara SC, Comercial, Corinthians, Figueirense, AA Internacional, Ponte Preta, Rio Branco, Santos, Vasco da Gama, and XV de Novembro Piracicaba of Brasil
-Slavia Sofia of Bulgaria
-SK Ceske Budejovice, FC Ceská Lípa, and SK Chrudim of the Czech Republic
-FC Reaal Tallinn of Estonia
-SC Freiburg of Germany
-PAOK Salonika and OFI Crete of Greece
-KR Reykjavik of Iceland
-Udinese Calcio of Italy
-Heracles Almelo of Holland
-Rosenborg BK Trondheim and Viking FK of Norway
-Club Olimpia of Paraguay
-Alianza Lima of Peru
-Boavista FC of Portugal
-Sportul Studentesc and Jiul Petrosani of Romania
-St Mirren and Dunfermline Athletic of Scotland
-Club Deportivo Castellon of Spain
-Örebro Sportklubb, Landskrona BoIS, and IF Sylvia of Sweden
-Besiktas Jimnastik Kulübü, Altay Spor Kulübü, and Aydinspor of Turkey
-Partizan of Serbia
I especially love that Corinthians of Brasil has Dominican colors!
Also, the Brasilian team Vasco da Gama has a chapel to Our Lady of Victory in their stadium.
Don't you all look nice!
ReplyDeleteSHAME on you laggards hiding in the back row!!! We want to see who is writing such inspirational pieces on the web!
I agree with you. I enjoyed putting faces to the posts. I think the one hiding (is it Fr Gregory?) should have his photo posted separately! That'll larn him to hide behind his brethren!
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