To Praise, To Bless, To Preach

If a Dominican is not devoted to prayer and praise, he cannot contemplate; he cannot even hope to contemplate. Without prayer, he will never penetrate the truths of faith. Speaking of Our Lord's mysteries

Dominican Life is Apostolic

Undertaking the task of explaining how “Dominican Life is Contemplative” has been a real challenge (just ask Mark who has read a variety of drafts).

Lay Dominicans, all Dominicans, are like a box of chocolates…

Fr. Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., past Master of the Order of Preachers, in his Foreword to the book Dominican Spirituality by Erik Borgman, a Dutch Lay Dominican, said the following: “… it is also part of Dominican spirituality to delight in discovering that we do not always agree….”

Dominican Life is Contemplative

Undertaking the task of explaining how “Dominican Life is Contemplative” has been a real challenge (just ask Mark who has read a variety of drafts).

Dominican Life is the Image of St. Dominic

We realized that while there are a lot of resources covering this topic, they are almost exclusively written by and for Dominicans living in community, i.e., not necessarily aimed at the Lay Dominican.

What Does It Mean To Say, “I am a Lay Dominican?”

I was sitting in mass not too long ago, and someone offered up a prayer for the religious.  It hit me for the first time - I am a religious, and that prayer was for me.

Living the Catholic Social Teachings: An Overview of Principles

Catholic Social Teaching, or Catholic social justice doctrine, has been called our Church’s “best kept secret.” 

Past Imperfect

The difference between introspection or self-absorption and the examination of conscience makes all the difference.

On Knowledge…

Data is data, not knowledge. If you just give someone the answers, you specifically teach them not to think. But we have rational souls, and the best teachers teach you to think. And why should we think? To know truth.