ResourcesDominican Resources

This online collection of resources offers a variety of links with information about the Dominican Order—its history, life, and legacy.

 

All Dominicans should nourish a tender devotion to their founder. It does not matter that they find another saint more effective in answering prayers. We do not pray primarily to get answers, at least not material answers. From St. Dominic we shall receive spiritual answers: the ability to understand the Dominican life, to live it well and to be zealous for souls. Dominicans should go to Dominic because he is a priest and remains one for all eternity. In heaven, he keeps the priestly outlook, still wants to help souls, can still counsel and give advice…A spiritual relationship binds St. Dominic to his children…They should go to him, asking for spiritual blessings, for the grace of contemplation, for the grace to live their Dominican life in a holy way. They should remind him that he promised to answer. When the friars came sorrowfully to his deathbed, recommending themselves to his prayers, his reassuring words were: “Where I am going, I will be of more use to you than I have ever been on earth.” Fulfill, O Father, what thou hast said. (Father William A. Hinnebusch, O.P.)

 

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