St. Dominic
Feast date: Aug 08
On Aug. 8, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of St. Dominic Guzman, who helped the cause of orthodoxy in the medieval Church by founding the Order of Preachers, also known as Dominicans.
“This great saint reminds us that in the heart of the Church a missionary fire must always burn,” Pope Benedict XVI said in a February 2010 General Audience talk on the life of St. Dominic. In his life, the Pope said, “the search for God’s glory and the salvation of souls” went “hand in hand.”
Born in Caleruega, Spain around the year 1170, Dominic was the son of Felix Guzman and Joanna of Aza, members of the nobility. His mother would eventually be beatified by the Church, as would his brother Manes who became a Dominican. The family’s oldest son Antonio also became a priest.
Dominic received his early education from his uncle, who was a priest, before entering the University of Palencia where he studied for ten years. In one notable incident from this period, he sold his entire collection of rare books to provide for the relief of the poor in the city.
After his ordination to the priesthood, Dominic was asked by Bishop Diego of Osma to participate in local church reforms. He spent nine years in Osma, pursuing a life of intense prayer, before being called to accompany the bishop on a piece of business for King Alfonso IX of Castile in 1203.
While traveling in France with the bishop, Dominic observed the bad effects of the Albigensian heresy, which had taken hold in southern France during the preceding century. The sect revived an earlier heresy, Manicheanism, which condemned the material world as an evil realm not created by God.
Dreading the spread of heresy, Dominic began to think about founding a religious order to promote the truth. In 1204 he and Bishop Diego were sent by Pope Innocent III to assist in the effort against the Albigensians, which eventually involved both military force and theological persuasion.
In France, Dominic engaged in doctrinal debates and set up a convent whose rule would eventually become a template for the life of female Dominicans. He continued his preaching mission from 1208 to 1215, during the intensification of the military effort against the Albigensians.
In 1214, Dominic’s extreme physical asceticism caused him to fall into a coma, during which the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to him and instructed him to promote the prayer of the Rosary. Its focus on the incarnation and life of Christ directly countered the Albigensian attitude towards matter as evil.
During that same year, Dominic returned to Tolouse and obtained the bishop’s approval of his plan for an order dedicated to preaching. He and a group of followers gained local recognition as a religious congregation, and Dominic accompanied Tolouse’s bishop to Rome for an ecumenical council in 1215.
The council stressed the Church’s need for better preaching, but also set up a barrier to the institution of new religious orders. Dominic, however, obtained papal approval for his plan in 1216, and was named as the Pope’s chief theologian. The Order of Preachers expanded in Europe with papal help in 1218.
The founder spent the last several years of his life building up the order and continuing his preaching missions, during which he is said to have converted some 100,000 people. After several weeks of illness, St. Dominic died in Italy on August 6, 1221. He was canonized in 1234 by Pope Gregory IX.
Source: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-dominic-556
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The Dominican’s order represents the last hope towards the restoration of the holy Catholic faith. This affirmation that the Dominican’s, the ‘doctors of theology’ will redress the errors of Vatican II is not bombastic and unthoughtful, because the ‘Order of Preachers’ was born out of combatting the violent and vicious Albigensian heresy and, what are the excretions of V2 besides a sack-full of all the most violent, pernicious and depraved heresies the world!
The Dominican’s are truly the only of the three major orders of the RCC’s left, since the Franciscan’s have sided with the emotional sides of V2, while the Jesuit’s have caved onto a “religion as a social order” pragmatic approach fo V2. Naturally, not all Franciscan Friars nor all Jesuits have lost the faith, but they, as a group have respectively disintegrated, while it is not the case (at large) for the Dominican’s. What could be the reasons?
Besides the fact that the Dominican’s Holy Mass, which preceded the Tridentine Mass by about two hundred years, and which is said privately among the (Dominican) Friars, there is also a formidable weapon of holy faith that the Dominican’s have maintained, in spite of the apostasy of Antipope “Saint”JP2, when the Polish marano “adulated” antipope sabotaged the Rosary of the BVM by imposing his own ‘Rosary of John-Paul’ with the ‘Luminous Mysteries’ (*) -please see footnote. The Fifteen Mysteries of the most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is…
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The Fifteen Mysteries of the most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is most certainly the net which does not break that has maintained the integrity of the Dominican’s Order.
(*) The BVM told to St. Dominic that Her Rosary was to have Fifteen Mysteries, and not ‘Twenty’. Those specific numbers of ’15′ & ’20′ are said in the hidden prophecy of John 21. St. Peter is ‘naked’ on his boat while having caught nothing during the night. He dressed and dove in the water and run unto the beach a distance of ’200 cubits’ to reach the Lord. The ’200 cubits’ is an distance that St. Peter has to travel in order to rejoin the Lord (at dawn: read at the end of the “Eclipse of the Church”). The number ’200′ represent the obstacle made by the ’203 Hail Mary’s’ of the John-Paul’s Rosary. The specific number ’153′ for the fishes caught in the ‘net which did not break’ is the result of the Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary of the BVM, because, this Holy Rosary’s complete psalter (of three tercets) has 153 Hail Mary’s. The hidden prophecy inside John 21 is about our time of the Great Apostasy when St. Peter, the authentic Vicar of Christ is stripped of his ministry and forced into exile .
An order strong argument against the heretical ‘Luminous Mysteries’ address to the new-church doctors’: The life of Jesus Christ as a missionary in already told entirely in the Fifth of the Joyful Mysteries when the 12 years old child Jesus…
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An order strong argument against the heretical ‘Luminous Mysteries’ address to the new-church doctors’ & niggardly followers: The life of Jesus Christ as a missionary in already told entirely in the Fifth of the Joyful Mysteries when the 12 years old child Jesus preaches to the doctors of the temple. The gospels say that the doctors of the Temple were “amazed”. That says it all!
The ‘Luminous Mysteries’ of the JP2′s Rosary add nothing to the public life of Jesus Christ, and not only do they add nothing, but they bring confusion to both the catechumen and the faithful, because they are grossly incomplete in their pretense to cover the public life of Christ, but they are omitting salient passages of the gospels. For example God Our Father in Heaven address three times to the world about His Beloved Son: The first time during the Baptism, the second time during the Transfiguration, and the third time at the Temple in Jerusalem during Holy Week. The bancal ‘Rosary of JP2′ omits the third vocal manifestation of God the Father, bancal as a tripode stool with a missing leg! This omission is diabolical, because it exonerates the Jews from their deicide by ignoring a divine acknowledging that Jesus Christ is the living God. This typing hand could add pages upon pages of accusations of heresies, but the point is made. The ‘Luminous Mysteries’ is an absolute heresy cleverly disguised by Satan and his imps. It has to be expelled from the Rosary of the BVM, which Holy Rosary was commanded to Saint Dominic.