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ST. DOMINIC AND THE DOMINICAN
SPIRITUALITY
Week 1
St. Dominic’s dog
- “Domini canis” (hounds or dogs
of the Lord)
- “Before his mother conceived
him, she saw in a vision that she
would bear in her womb a dog,
who with a burning torch in his
mouth and leaping from her
womb seemed to set the whole
earth on fire” - His Son is
someone who will spread light
or impact on earth
- Born: 1170 Caleruega, Castile
(Spain)
- Died: August 6, 1221 in Bologna,
Romagna (Italy)
- Canonization: July 3, 1234
- Feast Day: August 8
- Founder of Order of Preachers
(Dominicans)
EARLY LIFE
- His father (Felix De Guzman)
was lord of the manor in the
village, and his mother (Jane of
Aza) was from the local nobility
- In 1196, he joined the canons
regular (a religious community
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attached to the cathedral of a
diocese) of Osma, and became
the subprior (assistant to the
superior) a few years after.
- In 1203, the bishop of Osma
(Diego de Acebo) was sent on a
royal mission abroad and took
Dominic with him.
DOMINIC’S FIRST JOURNEY
- First missionary journey: South
of France facing the threat
posed to the Church by
Albigensian heretics, or
Cathari, who were reviving and
developing the Manichaean
teaching that the two supreme
beings, Good and Evil, dominate
spirit and matter respectively,
so that whatever concerns the
body—such as eating, drinking,
procreation, and the possession
of worldly goods—is essentially
evil, and the ideal is the
renunciation of these things and
even of life itself.
- Pope Innocent III had launched
a mission to preach against the
heresy
DOMINIC’S SECOND JOURNEY
- Dominic and the bishop (Diego
de Acebo) visited the pope, who
refused their request to preach
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to the pagans so they returned
to France (defend the faith, not
preach)
- In 1206, the papal legates and
preachers, depressed at the
failure of their mission,
consulted the bishop and
Dominic that the heretics would
be regained only by an austerity
equal to their own.
- The preachers must tramp the
roads barefoot in poverty, thus
the birth of Dominic’s
“evangelical preaching”
- On the same year, Dominic
founded a convent of nuns at
Prouille from a group of women
converted from the heresy
FOUNDATION OF THE DOMINICANS
- In 1215, Dominic -> Rome with
the bishop, Foulques De
Marseille, for the 4th Lateran
council to lay his plans before
the pope, who recommended
adoption of the rule of one of
the existing orders.
- In 1216, Dominic was back in
Toulouse conferring with his
companions, now 16 in number,
This meeting has been called
the capitulum fundationis
(chapter, or meeting, of
foundation”) The rule of St.
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Augustine was adopted)
- December 22, 1216: Received
formal sanction for order from
Pope Honorius III
- The novelty of the institute was
the commission to preach
Christian doctrine.
DOMINICAN SPIRITUALITY
(theocentric, Christological,
contemplative, monastic, priestly,
apostolic, and doctrinal)
- Monastic Element - The
Dominican breaks with the
world, commits himself to God,
and promises to live a
contemplative, penitential life
seeking Christian Perfection.
- Dominic taught the friars
to contemplate even on
the highway, saying to
them: “Let us think of
our Savior.” Constantly
he urged his friars “to
speak only with God or
of God”
- theo (God is the center)
- Priestly Element - accents
loyalty to the church, pope, and
truths of faith
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- focuses attention on
God, beginning and end
of all things
- Dominic’s devotion to
the Mother of God from
devotion to Christ.
- Epitome of spirituality,
the rosary summarizes
the liturgical cycle,
combines affective
devotion with strict
theology, leads to
contemplation, and is a
kind of preaching that
expresses itself in praise.
- Apostolic Element - constantly
and frequently preached and, in
every way he could
- urged friars to preach,
begging and advising to
be solicitous for the
salvation of souls and
sending them to preach
- Perfection for
Dominican: imitating the
poor Christ of the
Gospel, the preacher,
who having formed his
Apostles spiritually, send
out by 2 to preach
- Dominicans must be apostles
who converse with God,
- “Contemplate and give to
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others the fruit of their
contemplation” (St. Thomas)
- Doctrinal Element - cannot
neglect the study of sacred
truth without exposing his
vocation
- study constantly the Old and
New Testament
- such contemplative
study can the friar gain
the mastery he needs to
preach the supernatural
truths of faith with
charity and zeal
Blending of Elements
- no dichotomy in Dominican
spirituality
- Focusing on love of God and
centering on love of neighbor
- Evangelical vocation vitalizes
the priestly and contemplative
vocations
- Dominican’s life: contemplation
must be primary and
redemption centering on Christ
and engendering the apostolate
FOUR PILLARS OF DOMINICAN
SPIRITUALITY
- Prayer
- celebration of Mass and
the liturgy of hours
remain center of a
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Dominican’s daily life
- Study
- Primary object is the
Word of God through
Scripture, tradition, &
natural world
- Fullest manifestation is Early Life
the very person of Christ
himself
- Community
- Is a challenge to be of
“one mind and one heart
in God”
- Profession intro the
Order of Preachers
includes the promise to
hold all things common
- Preaching
- Dominicans share in the
ministry of bishops,
successors to the
apostles
- Dominicans were given
authority to preach
everywhere by Pope
Honorius III
ST.. THOMAS AQUINAS
- Born in 1225, Castle of
Roccasecca, Sicily
- Family is part of Noble Class
- Wrote the Summa Theologica
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which describes how Christ
reconciles the relationship of
humans with God
- Famous for his 5 arguments to
prove the existence of God
- Placed in the monastery of
Monte Cassino near his home as
an oblate (offered as a
prospective monk) when he was
still a young boy; his family
doubtless hoped that he would
become abbot to their
advantage.
- 1239, (after 9 yrs) young
Thomas was forced to return to
his family when the emperor
expelled monks because they
were too obedient to the pope
- Sent to the University of Naples,
recently founded by the
emperor,
- first encountered
scientific and
philosophical works that
were being translated
from Greek and Arabic.
- Thomas decided to join
the Friars Preachers or
Dominicans, a new
religious order founded
30 years earlier, which
departed from the
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traditional paternalistic
form of government for 2. Summa Theologica
monks to the more - Has 3 parts
democratic mendicant - First addressed God, gradually
friars (i.e., religious working its way through God’s
orders whose corporate creation and the angels to man
as well as personal
poverty made it - Second deals with man in
necessary for them to greater depth
beg alms) and from the - Third discusses Jesus Christ,
monastic life of prayer who serves as mediator
and manual labor to a between God and man in
more active life of Christian thought.
preaching and teaching.
Additional Facts: “ The things we love tells us what we
1. Lifelong fear of storms are” - St. Thomas Aquinas
2. Ran away from home to follow
Dominican Vocation
BLESSED PIER GIORGIO FRASSATI
3. Continued to pursue his dream
despite his family telling him to
- Pier Giorgio Michelangelo
give up
Frassati
4. Called the “dumb ox”
- Born in Turin, Italy on April 6,
5. Had terrible handwriting
1901
- Adelaide Ametis (mother),
Works of Thomas
painter
1. Summa Contra gentiles
- Alfredo (father) was the founder
- In Citing the scripture in the
and director of the newspaper,
SCG
“La Stampa," and was influential
- Thomas aims to demonstrate
in Italian politics, holding
that faith and reason are not in
positions as an Italian Senator
conflict, that those conclusions
and Ambassador to Germany
reached by way of Philosophy
- Nepo Baby si ante
coincide with the teachings of
- Early age, Pier Giorgio joined
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the Marian Sodality and the
Apostleship of Prayer, and
obtained permission to receive
daily Communion (which was
rare at that time)
- Developed a deep spiritual life
which he never hesitated to
share with his friends.
- The Holy Eucharist and the
Blessed Virgin were the two
poles of his world of prayer.
- Age of 17, he joined the St.
Vincent de Paul Society and
dedicated much of his spare
time to serving the sick and the
needy, caring for orphans, and
assisting the demobilized
servicemen returning from
World War I.
- Decided to become a mining
engineer, studying at the Royal
Polytechnic University of Turin,
so he could "serve Christ better
among the miners," as he told a
friend. (miners are considered
the lowest in society that time)
- In 1919, he joined the Catholic
Student Foundation and the
organization known as Catholic
Action.
- He became a very active
member of the People's Party,
which promoted the Catholic
Church's social teaching based
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on the principles of Pope Leo
XIlI's encyclical letter, Rerum
Novarum.
- Pier Giorgio gave to help the
poor, even using his bus fare for
charity and then running home
to be on time for meals.
- The poor and the suffering
were his masters, and he was
literally their servant, which he
considered a privilege. His
charity did not simply involve
giving something to others, but
giving completely of himself.
- Fed by daily communion with
Christ in the Holy Eucharist and
by frequent nocturnal adoration,
by meditation on St. Paul’s
“Hymn of Charity” (Corinthians
13), and by the writings of St.
Catherine of Siena.
- Often sacrificed vacations at the
Frassati summer home in
Pollone
- “If everybody leaves Turin,
who will take care of the
poor?”
- In 1921, he was a central figure
in Ravenna, helping to organize
the first convention of Pax
Romana
- Association which had as
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its purpose the
unification of all Catholic
students to work
together for universal
peace
- Mountain climbing was one of
his favorite sports, which also
served as opportunities for his
apostolic work
- Never lost the chance to lead
his friends to mass, to reading
the Scripture, and to praying the
rosary
- Fondness for the epistles of St.
Paul sparked his zeal for
fraternal charity
- The fiery sermons of the
Renaissance preacher and
reformer Girolamo Savonarola
- The writings of St. Catherine
impelled him in 1922 to join the
Lay Dominicans (Third Order of
St. Dominic)
- He chose the name Girolamo
after his personal hero,
Savonarola.
- “I am a fervent admirer of this
friar, who died as a saint at the
stake,"
- He was strongly anti-Fascist, like
his father and did nothing to
hide his political views
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- Physically defended the faith at
times involved in fights, first
with anticlerical communists
and later with Fascists
- In a church-organized
demonstration in Rome, he
stood up to police violence and
rallied the other young people
by grabbing the group’s banner,
which the royal guards had
knocked out of another
student’s hands
- Just before receiving his
university degree, Pier
contracted poliomyelitis, which
doctors believed he got from a
sick he tended
- Neglected his health because of
his grandmother dying, after 6
days of suffering, Pier Giorgio
died at the age of 24 on July 4,
1925
- Last preoccupation was for the
poor
- On the eve of his death, with a
paralyzed hand he scribbled a
message to a friend, asking him
to take the medicine needed for
injections to be given to
Converso, a sick man he had
been visiting
- In his funeral, the streets of the
city were lined with a multitude
of mourners who were unknown
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to his family– the poor and the to the tomb of Blessed Frassati
needy whom he had served for 7 to seek favors and the courage
yrs to follow his example.
- Majority of the people didn’t
knew that Pier Giorgio is
DIVINE REVELATION
actually the heir of the
influential Frassati family
Functions of Words
- Pope John Paul II, after visiting
1. Informative - we speak to
his original tomb in the family
merely tell something or just to
plot in Pollone, said in 1989: “I
converse
wanted to pay homage to a
2. Expressive - speak or disclose
young man who was able to
our deepest feelings
witness to Christ with singular
3. Appellative - we speak to be
effectiveness in this century of
reciprocated, begging for a
ours. When I was a young man, I,
response
too, felt the beneficial influence
of his example and, as a student,
Revelare (Latin) - to lift the veil, to
I was impressed by the force of
uncover
his testimony.
- May 20, 1990, in St. Peter’s
God out of His infinite love for
Square which was filled with
humankind decided to make Himself
thousands of people, the Pope
known to us (REVELATION 1, John
beatified Pier Giorgio Frassati
4:7-21)
calling him the “Man of the
Eight Beatitudes”
REVELATION
- His mortal remains, found
- “God’s personal loving
completely intact and incorrupt
communication to us of who He
upon their exhumation on
is and HIs plan to save us all in
March 31, 1981, were
His love”
transferred from the family
- It is God’s reaching out to us in
tomb in Pollone to the cathedral
friendship, so we get to know
in Turin.
and love Him (CFC 10)
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- The ultimate purpose of God’s
free act of self-disclosing to us
is nothing but our salvation
- Gods capability of limiting
himself in human words is in
itself a manifestation of his love
and greatness
OUR HUMAN LIMITATION
St. Thomas Aquinas said: “there is
nothing is the mind that is not first in
the senses”
1 JOHN 4:12 says: “No one has ever
seen God”
- God is a Spirit, a Mystery. A
spirit cannot be perceived by
the senses. A mystery
transcends all human
experience
God is not LIMITED
- language: product of human
experience.
- senses: Humans are able to
speak of God, we have to speak
of Him in terms of what our
senses can perceive
- image/experience: created in
the image and likeness of God
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All language about God is analogical
and symbolic
- Our IMAGES OF GOD are
products of Anthropomorphism
- Anthropos -> Man
- Morphe -> Form
- Anthropomorphism is the
attribution of human qualities to
non-human beings including
God
There's no such thing as perfect image
of God
- images are signs. They point
towards a greater reality
- Images have both strengths and
limitations
- Forming an imaginative picture
of God can be misleading
- Image may be manipulated and
distorted
God is a Mother
- makes God more approachable
(+)
- Presents God as a caring and
loving person (+)
- weakens God’s image primarily
due to the negative attributes of
the feminine caused by the
cultural conditioning of
patriarchal societies (-)
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God is a friend
- highlights God’s immanence
- Presents God as a person
actively involved in the daily life
experiences of man (+)
- may cause over-familiarity with
God which may lead to lack of
reverence (-)
“Word of God”
- in Hebrew term “dabar” means
“word” and also “event” or
“reality”
-> The events in Salvation History
-> The message of God proclaimed
through the prophet
-> The person of Jesus, who himself is
the Word of God
-> The preaching of the Christian Faith
-> The general message of God to
humanity
-> The Bible
Means of Communications
- through time
God make known His plan to
humankind
- God also wants to express
himself and disclose His plan of
salvation
- God’s loving communication to
humanity gradually unfolds
through time until the fullness of
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His revelation is made known in
Christ
TYPES OF REVELATION
1. Natural Revelation - refers to
how God makes himself known
to us through the created world
2. Special Revelation -
“supernatural revelation”
- would be unknown to us without
God’s supernatural intervention
through his chosen messengers
- St. Thomas equates this with the
bible
3. Private Revelation -
apparitions, mystical
experiences, etc.
- church-recognized messages
- They impose no obligation of
faith
- Carefully examined by the
magisterium based on public
revelation so that we may
authentically know which can
help us lead
4. Public Revelation - revelation
through Jesus Christ
- contains all the necessary truth
about our faith
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AVENUES OF REVELATION - Events seen through the

1. Revelation through events eyes of faith becomes
a. Creation evidences of God’s divine
- First act of God’s plan for humanity
revelation that declares
the glory of God
- Points to God as the
cause of everything
- Goodness of creation
reflects the goodness of
God
b. History

- Whether secular or 1. Natural revelation

religious, communal or - Reveals to us that we are
personal, pleasant or STEWARDS of God’s
tragic points as actions creation
of God - Invites us to give praise
and glory to God for His
2. Revelation through Persons generosity and constant
a. Prophets care
- Spokespersons of God
- Religious interpretation 2. Special Revelation
of history - Invites us to develop a habit of
b. Church reading the Bible and of
- Collective discenmment learning the history of our
and sense of divine Salvation
actions.
- Ritualize through: 3. Private Revelation
Preaching of the Word, - Invites us to be discerning and
worship celebration, acts focused on the authentic
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4. Public Revelation
- Invites us to be Christ-centered
Faith as a Response to God’s Divine
Revelation
Faith
- (Latin ob-audire) means to hear
or listen to
- To obey in faith is to submit
freely to the word that has been
heard
- Anyone who want to believe
needs a heart that is ready to
listen
- The desire for God written in the
human heart
- Faith is our response to God
- God never ceases to draw man
to himself
- God calls men to serve him in
spirit and truth
- Nature of faith is in conscience
but NOT COERCED. This fact
received its fullest manifestation
in Christ
FACT: Our conscience can be hardened
through multiple bad deeds done ng
patuloy tuloy but pwede pa rin naman
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siya lumambot as long as we allow god
to enter our life.
- Faith is a virtue
- Faith is infused by God (gift)
- Something unmerited, given
from the pure goodness of the
giver
- Gift of faith enables us to hope
for heaven and to love god and
neighbor
Faith is given to us by God in order to
find that same God
Ways of coming to know God
- person who seeks God discovers
certain ways if coming to know
him
- Obediential Potency
- Natural facility given by
God to us enabling us to
know God
- Human mind is in
obediential potency to
the knowledge of god
FIVE WAYS TO PROVE THE
EXISTENCE OF GOD (St. Thomas
Aquinas)
1. Argument from Motion
- First mover or unmoved
mover
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- God is first mover (di
pwede ma unmove)
- Senses can perceive
motion by seeing that
things act one another
- Whatever is moved is
moved by something
else
2. Argument from Causation of
Existence
- Thing cannot cause itself
- Its cause is outside of
itself
- There can be no infinite
chain of causes and
effects
- There must be a first
cause which is not
caused by anything
- The uncaused cause is
GOD
3. Argument from Contingency
and Necessity
- Contingency
- cannot be predicted
- it is possible for these
objects to exist or not
exist at any particular
time
- Nothing can come from
nothing
- Something must exist at
all times; GOD
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- Objects in the world
come into existence and
pass out of it, it is
possible for these
objects to exist or not
exist at any particular
time. However, nothing
can come from nothing.
This means something
must exist at all times.
This is GOD.
4. Argument from Gradation or
Degrees of Perfection
- characteristics of objects
come in greater or lesser
extents
- If an object has lesser
degrees of one
characteristic, then
there must be someone
who has a greater
degree, and ultimately
the maximum possible
degree
- There is someone who
has all characteristics in
the maximum possible
degree
- This absolute being is
GOD
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- Argument from Intelligent Faith Characteristics, dimensions,

Design and challenges
- Conscious, intelligent
mind brings a being to
5 Characteristics of Faith
its end or purpose
- Not all beings have
1. Total and Absolute
minds but even without
- Faith requires us to submit
it they are able to reach
everything we believe in.
their purpose
- Only faith in God calls for a total
- Must be an intelligent
and absolute adherence. Christ
mind who designs and
himself provides the best
governs those without
example of total and absolute
minds such that they
commitment to God by his
reach their end or
Passion, Death, and
purpose
Resurrection.
- Designer and governor is
- Ex. Athletes being loyal to their
God
coach
- Faith of human beings involves
2. Trinitarian
an active engagement in
- Personal conviction and belief in
whatever is knowable about
God (revealed), Jesus Christ
God.
(divine son made man), and
- Faith and reason tend toward
their presence to us through the
God contrastingly and
Holy Spirit
complementarily.
- Ex. Maria
- Faith is not only a head
knowledge but also in actions
3. Loving, Maturing, and
Missionary
This search for God demands effort of
- Faith that is not only a belief in
intellect, a sound will and an upright
Christ’s word and kingdom but
heart as well as witness of others who
also bearing witness and
teach him to seek God. (CCC 30)
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4. Informed and Communitarian

- Faith that is believing in Christ’s
words transmitted through
Sacred Scripture, accepting his
teachings and believing he has
the words of eternal life

5. Inculturated
- Faith that is lived in daily
relationships like family, friends,
classmates
- Ex. Family being the basic unit
of society and church. Being a
good christian to the family
3 Essential Dimensions of Faith
1. Believing - in the person of
Christ as “my Lord and my God”
2. Entrusting/Worshiping - Trust
that grows through prayer and
worship; a personal heartfelt
conversation
3. Doing - A commitment, for only
those who will enter the
kingdom will be those who does
the will of the father in heaven
Doctrine - Mind - Believing
Morality - Will - Doing
Worship - Heart - Trusting/Entrust
Paralyses of Faith
- the usual condition is that one
dimension is left out
1. Ideological Activism - believes
the right things, does what is
good, but hardly prays and goes
to church (lacks worship)
2. Idealistic Activism - Does good
to others, goes to church quite
often, but does not really know
what to believe in (lacks
doctrine)
3. Pious Dogmatism - believes in
the right things, always goes to
church, but lives a questionable
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customers and even offers

extended warranty to his wares.
- IDEOLOGICAL ACTIVISM (lack
of worship)
3. Aling Lucia is a parishioner at
Quiapo. She goes there
everyday to pray that her life
would get better. At home she
often neglects her children
because of gambling. Aling
Lucia also threatens her
Situational Analysis husband that she would leave
1. Carlos is a dishonest student. He him if he would not give her
believes that it is better to cheat money for her vice. Aling Lucia
than to repeat. Carlos also believes that she deserves a
constantly prays that he will not better life and her misfortunes
be caught and expelled because are a curse from God. - PIOUS
he is the breadwinner of the DOGMATISM (lack of moral)
family. Carlos knows what he
does is wrong but who can
blame him in his situation. -
IDEALISTIC ACTIVISM (lack of
doctrine)
2. Mr. Chua is a store owner at
Divisoria. Although he is a
Christian, Mr. Chua still believes
in superstitions that would bring
good luck to his store. He has a
lot of luck attracting figurines on
display including but not limited
to a frog with a coin in its mouth
and a cat that waves to his
customers. Mr. Chua is honest in
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