The miraculous answer...

The heavens praise your wonders, O LORD, 
your faithfulness too,
in the assembly of the holy ones. - Psalm 9:10

 

The Miracle of Saint Dominic

    "During the ceremony of profession of the nuns of St Sixtus, there was a great excitement and a call for the saint to come out, since the nephew of one of the bishops who was acting with him in this case had just been thrown from his horse and was lying dead in the square outside. ...The body of the young man was brought in, badly mangled from the accident, and laid at the feet of the saint.  Dominic ordered them immediately to remove the body to another room. 

    Once more life came back at his request; this time after he had offered the Holy Sacrifice.  Bystanders testified that during the Mass they had seen him raised above the ground.  There were hundreds of witnesses to the miraculous answer when he spoke to the dead youth and commanded:  "Young man, I say to thee arise."  The youth rose up joyful and with no sign of injury and was restored to his family.  This miracle was instrumental in bringing into the (Dominican) Order two of its most famous sons; they were the brothers, Hyacinth and Ceslaus, and were later to win great renown as the apostles of the North."  

Sr Mary Jean Dorcy, OP

Saint Dominic

St Dominic

SPAIN ~ 1170-1221

Founder:  Order of Preachers (OP)

(popularly known as Dominicans)

Motto: Laudare, benedicere, praedicare

"to praise, to bless, to preach"

Known for rigorous intellect, humility,
austerity and prayerful love of God
Worked effectively agst Albigensian heresy

Feast Day - August 8

 "Arm yourself with prayer rather than a sword;
wear humility rather than fine clothes." - St Dominic

"We must sow the seed, not hoard it." - St Dominic
 

"St Dominic responded when ... He heard his Master call ... And truly lived a pious  life ... With charity to all ... The holiest of friars who ... Were living in his time ... He fought against the ravages ... Of heresy and crime ... He founded the Dominicans ... And taught them prayer and fasting ... And that humility which leads ... To glory everlasting ... One day when he was rapt in prayer ... And dwelt on God’s commands ... Our Lady came to him and placed ... The Rosary in his hands ... And so today each bead we say ... For all the poor and sick ... Should be in loving memory ... Of good St Dominic. 

From Poem Portraits of the Saints, James J Metcalfe (1956)

Click here: St. Dominic - YouTube 
Click here: The History of the Rosary 

Spiritualdirection.com| Saint Dominic's Nine Ways of Prayer 

St Dominic, pray for us!

It signifies love, it produces love...

 "The Eucharist is the sacrament of love:

it signifies love, it produces love." - St Thomas Aquinas

 "St Thomas Aquinas' greatest love was the Blessed Sacrament, of which he was to be the world's greatest witness.  He would spend hours at a  time, day and night, before the altar in adoration and meditation.  Here was his great school.  The Eucharistic Lord Himself was his Master. When he celebrated Mass, he was in raptures and often in tears.  After saying his own Mass he would serve another - or at least hear one. 

In December 1273, when he was forty-seven, he laid down his pen, determined to study and write no more, so that he might give himself to God entirely in meditation and prayer.  He was ordered by Pope Gregory X to go to Lyons to assist at the General Council.  Taken ill on the way, he was obliged to stop at the Cistercial Abbey of Fossa-Nouva. His first visit was to the Blessed Sacrament.  At Fossa-Nouva he lay seriously ill for a month.  He made his general confession. 

While Viaticum was being brought to him, he had himself taken from the bed and laid upon ashes on the floor.  The tears came to his eyes as he beheld the Host in the hand of the priest.  He made his profession of faith:

"I firmly believe that Jesus Christ, true God and true man, is present in this august Sacrament.  I adore You, my God and my Redemption, the Viaticum of my pilgrimage, for whose honor I have studied, labored, preached and taught."

From: Witnesses to the Eucharist, Fr Hugh F Blunt, LLD

St Thomas Aquinas

Italy ~ 1225-1274

Dominican monk

Theologian, philosopher, professor

Prolific writer, Hymn composer

Doctor of the Church

FEAST DAY - January 28

(Happy confirmation namesake day, Fr Howe!)

"The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord 

puts the demons to flight, 

defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, 

cleanses the soul from sin, 

quiets the anger of God, 

enlightens the understanding to know God, 

inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, 

fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, 

confirms the entire man in good, 

frees us from eternal death, 

multiplies the merits of a good life, 

leads us to our everlasting home, 

and re-animates the body to eternal life." - St Thomas Aquinas

Click here: Fr. Barron comments on St. Thomas Aquinas - YouTube

 Click here: St. Thomas Aquinas - YouTube (2 mins)

Click here: Discovering our Saints - St. Thomas Aquinas - YouTube (3 mins)

Click here: 12 Stories About St. Thomas Aquinas - by Peter Kreeft - YouTube (10 mins)

"Beware the man of one book." - St Thomas Aquinas

  St Thomas Aquinas, pray for us!

The miraculous answer...

The heavens praise your wonders, O LORD, your faithfulness too,
in the assembly of the holy ones. - Psalm 9:10

 

The Miracle of Saint Dominic

    "During the ceremony of profession of the nuns of St Sixtus, there was a great excitement and a call for the saint to come out, since the nephew of one of the bishops who was acting with him in this case had just been thrown from his horse and was lying dead in the square outside. ...The body of the young man was brought in, badly mangled from the accident, and laid at the feet of the saint.  Dominic ordered them immediately to remove the body to another room. 

    Once more life came back at his request; this time after he had offered the Holy Sacrifice.  Bystanders testified that during the Mass they had seen him raised above the ground.  There were hundreds of witnesses to the miraculous answer when he spoke to the dead youth and commanded:  "Young man, I say to thee arise."  The youth rose up joyful and with no sign of injury and was restored to his family.  This miracle was instrumental in bringing into the (Dominican) Order two of its most famous sons; they were the brothers, Hyacinth and Ceslaus, and were later to win great renown as the apostles of the North."  

Sr Mary Jean Dorcy, OP

Saint Dominic

St Dominic

SPAIN ~ 1170-1221

Founder:  Order of Preachers (OP)

(popularly known as Dominicans)

Motto: Laudare, benedicere, praedicare

"to praise, to bless, to preach"

Worked effectively agst Albigensian heresy

FEAST DAY - August 8

 

 "Arm yourself with prayer rather than a sword;
wear humility rather than fine clothes." - St Dominic

 

"St Dominic responded when ... He heard his Master call ... And truly lived a pious life ... With charity to all ... The holiest of friars who ... Were living in his time ... He fought against the ravages ... Of heresy and crime ... He founded the Dominicans ... And taught them prayer and fasting ... And that humility which leads ... To glory everlasting ... One day when he was rapt in prayer ... And dwelt on God’s commands ... Our Lady came to him and placed ... The Rosary in his hands ... And so today each bead we say ... For all the poor and sick ... Should be in loving memory ... Of good St Dominic. 

From Poem Portraits of the Saints, James J Metcalfe (1956)

Click here: St. Dominic - YouTube

Click here: The History of the Rosary
Spiritualdirection.com| Saint Dominic's Nine Ways of Prayer 

St Dominic, pray for us!