being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you. But with modesty and fear, having a good conscience:[1 Pt 3:15-16]
The next meeting will be held at Saint Mark Catholic Church, 7960 Northview, Boise, Idaho, on Saturday, October 19 at 8:00AM.
There may be a retreat at St Benedict Lodge in Oregon during 2019. Further notice as plans are made.
St Benedict Lodge is a retreat facility in the Cascades that is owned and operated by the Dominican Friars of the Western Province.
It makes no sense that we grant the use of unrestricted lethal force to a citizen with no judicial oversight, and simultaneously claim that the state has no right to the use of restricted lethal force with full judicial oversight.
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It's wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
- John Adams, 2nd US president, Oct 11, 1798
The child, who does not think about so serious a thing as health, dreams of meals that are made up of desserts. Men and women, who do not think about so serious a thing as living, dream of a life that consists only of sweetness, soft music and rest to the echo of applause and gently sympathetic understanding. But meals are never like that; neither is life. In the same vein, our modern men and women dream of God as a being of whom no one could ever be afraid, a gentle, stupid god who would allow men and women to ruin themselves and then admire them for the work they had done in destroying his masterpiece. You see they never really think about God, for God is not like that.
Walter Farrell, O.P., A Companion to the Summa, Volume III CHAPTER I -- FREEDOM FOR THE MIND (Q. 1-9)
For there must be also heresies: that they also,
who are approved may be made manifest among you. [1 Cor 11:19]
"You seek me", St. Augustine comments, "for the flesh, not for the spirit. How many seek Jesus for no other purpose than that He may do them good in this present life! [...] Scarcely ever is Jesus sought for Jesus' sake" ("In Ioann. Evang.", 25, 10).
Man's whole salvation, which is in God, depends upon the knowledge of this (divinely revealed) truth. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part I, first question, first answer
This, and nothing else, is the purpose of the Church: the salvation of individual souls Benedict XVI – Sao Paolo, Brazil, May 11, 2007
Mark,
ReplyDelete"effort to do away with traditional language."
I'm a "tertiary" back here in Pennsylvania. My family and I (I'm 44) attend our diocesan indult Mass exclusively. In other words, I'm pretty traditional myself, and thus much disturbed at this effort to suddenly comply with an order from (1987, wasn't it?) to now call ourselves "The Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic" after 700 years of being the "Third Order of St. Dominic." Personally I find it a tad pedantic, especially given the Holy Father's sympathy toward things traditional. It seems to me this is an effort by folks who seem to see the writing on the wall.
Wasn't it enough to move the feasts of St. Dominic, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Catherine of Siena, and St. Rose of Lima?
I'm interested - what's your opinion?
Also, I've read the stories you've posted of your life story. My heart goes out to you, my friend. You'll be remembered in my Rosary when I turn in tonight, not to mention the soul of your dear wife.
Yours in Dominic and Catherine
Jon,
ReplyDeleteYour thoughts are quite similar to mine on the subject of terms, which is the subject of an ongoing debate here it the Western Province as well.
The Third Order is what we are part of, the substance, if you will, and the accidental is the Lay Fraternity. To confuse the two is to do a disservice to all the Dominican Tertiaries who were not members of "Lay Fraternities," chief among whom were Ss. Catherine of Sienna, Rose of Lima (I'm currently transcribing ch 20 of the 18th century book), Bl. Margaret of Castello, and Pope Pius V, not to mention popes Benedict XV and Pius XII!
the local form of governance is not the same thing as the branch of the Order to which we all belong. The blurring of distinction, which seems so prized by some, I find hard to understand. You would think that they would appreciate the diversity of ways to live the Dominican charism within the Order.