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S.M.A.C. DOSSIER
CASE FILE 504—04B: COMPARATIVE MONASTIC LIFESTYLES

Choose one of the groups from the video and your chart and compare and contrast it with a different
monastic order that was not mentioned in the video. You may want to choose from the list below, or you
can find your own Catholic order! The order must have been founded before 1600.

Franciscans Dominicans Ursulines

Augustinians Carmelites Jesuits

In order to learn further about your chosen order, you need to do a little research. You need to find one
internet source in order to supplement your knowledge of these orders. When evaluating your sources,
make sure you use the CRAAP test. Once you have done your research, fill in the chart below. Be sure to
provide your sources!

Carthusians Dominicans
Information The Carthusians were founded in 1804 The Dominicans were founded in 1216 by
on by a group of monks who wanted more St. Dominic de Guzman who wanted to
Founding: isolation. They started their community inform people about preaching. He started
Who? near Grenoble, France. his community in France.
When?
Where?
The Carthusians wore white hooded The Dominicans lived together
robes, they came together for only a harmoniously with one mind and heart.
few services a day, and lived in They believe that the bigger a congregation
What are separate cells where they had private is, the holier it is.
their central spaces to pray. The Carthusians were
beliefs? also the most austere out of the
Benedictine orders. They lived in
solitude so that they won’t be
distracted from religious services.
How are These beliefs are similar because the followers believed in having a holier community
these beliefs with different sized congregations. Both orders value praying as well as a simple
similar? lifestyle.
Central Concept: How prayer is practiced
Choose one
concept, and The Carthusians practiced their prayer The Dominicans practiced their prayer in a
explain how individually in order to not get community in order to have the prayer be
their beliefs distracted by the outside world. as holy as possible. They believed that the
differ on this more people who prayed together, the
idea. more holy the prayer was.
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Source: “History of the Order of the Preachers, the Dominican Friars.” Dominican Friars
Foundation, 2017, dominicanfriars.org/about/history-dominican-friars/.