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Traditionally the priests and brothers in a religious order are termed the “first order”, and the nuns and sisters the “second order”; but it’s an odd fact about the Order of Preachers that the nuns...
View ArticleFormation Notes: Paul Gives the Romans the Straight Dope
I was named to be my Lay Dominican chapter’s formation directory last month, filling out the end of a term for another member, and yesterday I had my first meeting with our two novices. Formation in...
View ArticleSt. Martin de Porres
Yesterday was the feast day of St. Martin de Porres, a Dominican saint from South America and friend of St. Rose of Lima. I’m a little late to the party, clearly (I spent the last few days down with a...
View ArticleThird Orders Aren’t First Orders
Clare Short recently began formation as a Secular Carmelite, and has been blogging about it. She’s the mother of young children, and the other day she received a message about her vocation from a...
View ArticleCelebrating the Dominican Jubilee with Lectio Divina #OP800
This past Sunday, the Western Province of the Dominican Order opened the Order’s 800-year Jubilee with mass at the various Dominican parishes around the province—or, at least, that’s what happened at...
View ArticlePier Giorgio Frassati, Man of the Beatitudes
My latest at Aleteia: …while some saints live their lives in the spotlight, God blesses others with lives of perfect anonymity, so that the fruits of their holiness become known only when their lives...
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