07 Feb 2012
New Sister, I hope that the Dominican Rite makes a comeback with the sisters as it is beginning to do with the younger generations of friars. I am pleased to report that the friar whom our prior provincial has recently assigned ...
20 Jan 2013
Like the Jesuits, Salesians, Benedictines, Ursulines (and others not covered in this mini-series), the Dominicans developed and used a method of pedagogy. This is what "scholasticism" really is. It is based on five areas:
14 Feb 2013
I shall save the best one until last, the Universal Doctor of the Church, Thomas Aquinas, and as we already looked at St. Catherine of Siena, a Third Order Dominican, I can concentrate on St. Albert the Great today. Again, I am ...
02 Dec 2012
Decades ago, the Dominicans decided to go with the Novus Ordo Missae and basically ditch the Dominican Rite Mass (though this is making a comeback); I think they did the same with the breviary. But I believe there is also a ...
21 May 2013
The Dominicans are doing very well here, as the one getting the most vocations wears a full habit and allows for a multiple use of talent in various places, such as evangelization, catechesis, and other parish work. The new ...
18 Jan 2013
If I have time, I shall write about the Ursulines and Dominicans. But, sadly, few of those schools exist which still follow the original methodologies. Again, to preserve these aspects of our Catholic identity, it may be up to home ...
23 Nov 2012
An order, such as the Benedictines, Dominicans, Franciscans, Fraternity of St. Peter, or the Institute of Christ the King have various things in common. I shall list those: first, an order has a spirituality unique to that group of men.
08 Aug 2012
Posted by Supertradmum. The Meeting of St Dominic and St. Francis, Fra Angelico, 1430. Today, I pray for A, S, R, Z, E, T, V, C and all the Dominicans I know. Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook ...
17 Feb 2013
Reading Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas parallels eating Death by Chocolate Cake. I shall continue with the Doctors of the Church and Perfection tomorrow. Goodbye to the Dominicans and hello to the Benedictines.
28 Jan 2013
Staying with the Dominicans today, on the Feast of the Greatest, I pick up on G-L's reference to Henry Suso, who I first discovered in about 1980. Here is a section of his writings to help us. Again, read footnotes, as they are ...
08 Feb 2013
Emily said... I love that she was a Lay Dominican. She gives me hope, since I was not accepted by any of the cloistered orders due to my crazy health...the biography by Sigrid Undset is such a wonderful introduction to her.
08 Jun 2012
He may make contemplatives desire the active life, or vice versa. Blessed Jordan of Saxony, second General of the Dominicans, contracted a high fever. He had a prior skilled in medicine who told him to sleep on a soft bed.
14 Feb 2013
Albert, more than many, writes clearly of the Illuminative and Unitive States here. Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook. Labels: doctors of the Church, dominicans, perfection again, saints and martyrs ...
16 Feb 2013
There is only one Universal Doctor of the Church and that is St. Thomas Aquinas, the last Dominican in the series, but not the least. Among the volumes of his work, On the Perfection of the Spiritual Life will take up several ...
15 Feb 2013
(2); count of monte cristo (5); covenant (3); Crucifixions (6); cults (6); cute (13); danger for kids (3); David Jones (1); death of the west (28); decline of the West (38); Deuteronomy (3); doctors of the Church (152); dominicans (26) ...
16 Feb 2013
... Moses and John, the saints who show us the Love of God. To be continued................... Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook. Labels: doctors of the Church, dominicans, perfection again, saints and martyrs ...
16 Feb 2013
... is created rather than to the Creator himself, putting the created before the Creator. Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook. Labels: doctors of the Church, dominicans, perfection again, saints and martyrs ...
15 Feb 2013
... abode in Christ Jesus who is the way for those who come to him, the truth and life. Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook. Labels: doctors of the Church, dominicans, perfection again, saints and martyrs ...
16 Feb 2013
... to follow Christ, renounces riches and chooses poverty. To be continued......................... Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook. Labels: doctors of the Church, dominicans, perfection again, saints and martyrs ...