![]() ![]() He seldom spoke unless it was with God, that is, in prayer, or about God, and in this matter he instructed his brothers. During the night hours no one was more persistent in every kind of vigil and supplication. During the day no one was more community-minded or pleasant toward his brothers and associates. Wherever he went he showed himself in word and deed to be a man of the Gospel. And since a joyful heart animates the face, he displayed the peaceful composure of a spiritual man in the kindness he manifested outwardly and by the cheerfulness of his countenance. He was a man of great equanimity, except when moved to compassion and mercy. Italy)ĭominic possessed such great integrity and was so strongly motivated by divine love, that without a doubt he proved to be a bearer of honor and grace. What follows is an excerpt from various writings on the history of the Order of Preachers which is used in the Office of Readings for August 8, the liturgical memorial of St. Dominic died at Bologna on August 6, 1221. Witness of life and gentle persuasion succeeded where compulsion and force had failed. As a result, he and his brothers, who came to be known as Friars Preachers or Dominicans, succeeded in winning back the people of Albi, Toulouse, and all Southern France to the Catholic faith. Dominic responded by founding a new form of religious life whereby friars lived not in monasteries like monks, but among the people, witnessing to them not only with the words of authentic biblical and Catholic Christianity, but also through a lifestyle of joyful poverty, simplicity and charity. The preachers of this Albigensian heresy convinced the common folk that the worldly, sensual lives of many of the Catholic clergy proved that Catholic Christianity was unspiritual. In his day there arose a heresy in Southern France that denied the goodness of the body and all material reality, equating holiness with asceticism and self-denial. He studied theology and the Sacred Scriptures at Palencia and was made canon of the church of Osma. Saint Dominic was born in Calaruega, Spain ca. ![]()
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