The very dynamism of our common life is reflected in the way we observe our vows: poverty meaningfully lived in our solidarity with the poor; obedience fully expressed in openness and dialogue, and chastity fostered through healthy fraternal bonding towards the fullness of our life as community of preachers.
"On Religious Consecration"
Acts of the 9th Provincial Chapter
Friday, October 23, 2009
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
GOSPEL ON THE FRONTIERS
the goal of the order is not to create intellectuals but to form preachers who can proclaim the gospel on multiple frontiers of the modern world. these include the frontier of poverty resulting from economic globalization; the frontier of personhood and human dignity in the field of bioethics; the frontier of christian experience faced with religious pluralism; and the frontier of religious experience faced with atheism, materialist indifference and new forms of idolatry.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
DOMINICAN STUDY
our confidence to take part in the quaestiones disputatae of today must derive from our confidence that we are the heirs to an intellectual tradition, which is not to be preserved in some intellectual deep-freeze.
it is alive and has an important contribution to make today. it rests upon some fundamental philosophical and theological intuitions: an understanding of morality in terms of the virtues and growth in freedom; the goodness of all creation; a confidence in reason and in the role of debate; happiness in the vision of god as our destiny; and a humility in the face of the mystery of god which draws us beyond all ideology.
timothy radcliffe, master of the order
it is alive and has an important contribution to make today. it rests upon some fundamental philosophical and theological intuitions: an understanding of morality in terms of the virtues and growth in freedom; the goodness of all creation; a confidence in reason and in the role of debate; happiness in the vision of god as our destiny; and a humility in the face of the mystery of god which draws us beyond all ideology.
timothy radcliffe, master of the order
BECOMING A BROTHER
becoming a brother involves a profound change of identity and a sort of dying. in the consumer society of the west, it means dying to a certain sort of freedom so as to discover a deeper freedom. in other cultures it implies transcending nationalism and regionalism.
when our identity as brethren is submerged by that of priesthood, then our fraternity is weakened. we should value priesthood as a vocation but not at the cost of our identity as friars of the order of preachers.
"relatio de statu ordinis", acts of providence, 2001.
when our identity as brethren is submerged by that of priesthood, then our fraternity is weakened. we should value priesthood as a vocation but not at the cost of our identity as friars of the order of preachers.
"relatio de statu ordinis", acts of providence, 2001.
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