The Dominican Soul

[TeresaBenedicta]

[url="http://www.op-stjoseph.org/blog/the_dominican_soul?utm_source=Dominican+Daily&utm_campaign=4bcf68b8d5-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email"]The Dominican Soul[/url]

LC & DS, this is especially for you. Vee8, this might sway you back toward the Dominicans. All you Carmelites-- watch out... I don't think it's possible to read this without falling for the Dominicans... :D

In all seriousness.... I can't even begin to put into words how much this resonated with me and extraordinarily beautiful the Dominican soul really is. I really am a Dominican at heart and at soul.

Some teasers for you all:

[i]A Dominican soul is a soul of light whose rapt gaze dwells in the inaccessible splendor wherein God conceals Himself.[/i]

[i]It does not jealously guard its faith for itself. It longs to bear the torch of faith everywhere on land and sea, in every country, to the ends of the earth... We have here the key to the whole Dominican vocation: to live, defend and propagate the faith in the atmosphere of the Church.[/i]

[i]The Dominican soul must be a soul of silence... A Dominican soul which does not love long hours of solitude and recollection deceives itself about the spiritual fruits of its action... The spiritual depth of a soul is measured by its capacity for silence.[/i]

[i]A Dominican soul in its sublimest activity is a contemplative soul... Its existence among men should be nothing else than a prolonged gaze of love toward God alone.

The Dominican soul is a Marian soul... where is the Dominican who does not dream of living and dying with the Rosary in his or her hand? It is true to say that the more devoted a soul is to Mary, the more Dominican it is.

Fixed in God by love, the Dominican soul lives for this alone: united with Christ in each of its acts, through Him, with Him, and in Him, it thinks only of glorifying the Father by continual adoration and of saving souls who will glorify Him eternally.

...Not the love of knowledge, but the knowledge of love...[/i]

AHHHH!!!!!!!!!! Soooo amazing!!!!!!!

Dominican.

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You have the wrong name for a Dominican

[Micah]

really good read. Someone else posted it a bit back. :]

[TeresaBenedicta]

[quote name='nunsense' timestamp='1285034204' post='2174972']
You have the wrong name for a Dominican
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Haha, that's very true.

I have a special place in my heart for the Carmelite Saints. Something in them draws me. [i]But[/i], it's only in understanding St. Thomas' theology of grace that I've been able to really understand the Carmelite writings.

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[quote name='TeresaBenedicta' timestamp='1285036185' post='2174985']
Haha, that's very true.

I have a special place in my heart for the Carmelite Saints. Something in them draws me. [i]But[/i], it's only in understanding St. Thomas' theology of grace that I've been able to really understand the Carmelite writings.
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I know what you mean. We are drawn to different saints because they help us understand what we need to know. St John of the Cross made everything clear to me at a time when I really needed him. Later, I learned to love Aquinas too, but if St John hadn't come first, I wouldn't even have been able to read Aquinas. I am a Carmelinican

[TeresaBenedicta]

[quote name='nunsense' timestamp='1285036704' post='2174990']
I know what you mean. We are drawn to different saints because they help us understand what we need to know. St John of the Cross made everything clear to me at a time when I really needed him. Later, I learned to love Aquinas too, but if St John hadn't come first, I wouldn't even have been able to read Aquinas. I am a Carmelinican
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I think there is a very real synthesis between Dominican and Carmelite spirituality. :nod: I think I'm a Dominarmel. It is through St. Thomas that I understand and appreciate the Carmelites!!

[OnlySunshine]

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[quote name='TeresaBenedicta' timestamp='1285037290' post='2174992']
I think there is a very real synthesis between Dominican and Carmelite spirituality. :nod: I think I'm a Dominarmel. It is through St. Thomas that I understand and appreciate the Carmelites!!
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No, no, the correct term is [size="3"][b]Dominilite[/b][/size]!

[TeresaBenedicta]

[quote name='nunsense' timestamp='1285037571' post='2174994']
No, no, the correct term is [size="3"][b]Dominilite[/b][/size]!
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Haha, yes, yes. That makes much more sense.

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='TeresaBenedicta' timestamp='1285037290' post='2174992']
I think there is a very real synthesis between Dominican and Carmelite spirituality. :nod: I think I'm a Dominarmel. [b] It is through St. Thomas that I understand and appreciate the Carmelites!![/b]
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Same here, TB!! If St. Thomas hadn't come first for me... honestly, I probably would have thought all Carmelites were a bunch of loons... (Sorry, VS Carmelites... )

I remember trying to read John of the Cross before entering the convent, and well.. I could tell he was UBER-holy, but I didn't care, I thought he was also UBER-crazy. That was enough for me.

[quote name='nunsense' timestamp='1285037571' post='2174994']
No, no, the correct term is [size="3"][b]Dominilite[/b][/size]!
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That makes me think of mini-Dominicans or something.

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[quote name='laetitia crucis' timestamp='1285037995' post='2174997']
Same here, TB!! If St. Thomas hadn't come first for me... honestly, I probably would have thought all Carmelites were a bunch of loons... (Sorry, VS Carmelites... )

I remember trying to read John of the Cross before entering the convent, and well.. I could tell he was UBER-holy, but I didn't care, I thought he was also UBER-crazy. That was enough for me.



That makes me think of mini-Dominicans or something.
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First, I can't speak for all Carmelites, but I definitely fit into the loon category.

Second, that's why St John could help me - one uber-crazy to another!

Fourth, Dominilites are just Dominicans on a diet!

(ps who needs a Third?)

Edited September 21, 2010 by nunsense

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='nunsense' timestamp='1285038696' post='2175002']
First, I can't speak for all Carmelites, but I definitely fit into the loon category.

Second, that's why St John could help me - one uber-crazy to another!

Fourth, Dominilites are just Dominicans on a diet!

(ps who needs a Third?)
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Even though I'm not Carmelite in my spirituality, [i]maaaaybe [/i]I need to become a Dominilite... a Dominican on a diet.

[TeresaBenedicta]

[quote name='laetitia crucis' timestamp='1285038831' post='2175003']
Even though I'm not Carmelite in my spirituality, [i]maaaaybe [/i]I need to become a Dominilite... a Dominican on a diet.
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Me too, LOL!!!

[LaPetiteSoeur]

Ahh! The Dominicans...

This said it all.

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Since LC is leaving today for England to enter a Dominican convent, I thought I would post a link to a Dominican community here in Oz, in her honour. Pray for us LC

This community is fairly new and small, but a former flatmate of mine discerned with them and said they are great. Not being a Dominican myself, I can only take her word for it. So anyone in the Pacific who might be interested in a Dominican (teaching) community, you can write to the Prioress for more info - they do have a brochure with more info.

Website - [url="http://users.dragnet.com.au/~veritas/index.html"]http://users.dragnet.com.au/~veritas/index.html[/url]

photos [url="http://users.dragnet.com.au/~veritas/webnews.htm"]http://users.dragnet.com.au/~veritas/webnews.htm[/url]

More about them - [url="http://www.rc.net/australia/aprel/APRELdomn.htm"]http://www.rc.net/australia/aprel/APRELdomn.htm[/url]

Diocese info - [url="http://www.wagga.catholic.org.au/Vocations/FemaleReligiousOrders/TheConventualSistersofStDominic.aspx"]http://www.wagga.catholic.org.au/Vocations/FemaleReligiousOrders/TheConventualSistersofStDominic.aspx[/url]

from your Carmelite Sister in Christ