Today the Episcopal Church remembers Dominic, the founder of the Order of Preachers, or more commonly, the “Dominicans.” In England they were called the “Blackfriars.”
Dominic was born in Spain in 1170. He was ordained a priest in 1196, as was a sub-canon on the Cathedral of Osma where there was a strict rule of discipline practiced by the clergy there.
According to the Lesser Feasts and Fasts, Dominic began preaching in Languedoc in Southern France in 1203. There, he preached against the Albigensian heretics who were essentially Manichaeans, that is, they held the view that there were two equal powers of good and evil and that God was not omnipotent or perfect. The Albigensians took from the Manichaeans the idea that the body and the created order were evil.
In 1215, Dominic sought recognition of the Order of Preachers, which was granted in 1217.
Thereafter, Dominic established many friaries and he himself continued preaching until his death in August of 1221. he lived a life of austerity and was reputedly a wonderful preacher.
The order that he founded, focused on teaching and preaching, establishing universities throughout Europe, and contributed such intellectual giants and theologians as Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus) (1206-1280), Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), and in more recent days Yves Congar (1905-1995) and Edward Schillebeeckx (1914- ).
The Collect for the day:
O God of the prophets, you opened the eyes of your servant Dominic to perceive a famine of hearing the word of the Lord, and moved him, and those he drew about him, to satisfy that hunger with sound preaching, and fervent devotion: Make your Church, dear Lord, in this and every age, attentive to the hungers of the world, and quick to respond in live to those who are perishing; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Dominic was born in Spain in 1170. He was ordained a priest in 1196, as was a sub-canon on the Cathedral of Osma where there was a strict rule of discipline practiced by the clergy there.
According to the Lesser Feasts and Fasts, Dominic began preaching in Languedoc in Southern France in 1203. There, he preached against the Albigensian heretics who were essentially Manichaeans, that is, they held the view that there were two equal powers of good and evil and that God was not omnipotent or perfect. The Albigensians took from the Manichaeans the idea that the body and the created order were evil.
In 1215, Dominic sought recognition of the Order of Preachers, which was granted in 1217.
Thereafter, Dominic established many friaries and he himself continued preaching until his death in August of 1221. he lived a life of austerity and was reputedly a wonderful preacher.
The order that he founded, focused on teaching and preaching, establishing universities throughout Europe, and contributed such intellectual giants and theologians as Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus) (1206-1280), Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), and in more recent days Yves Congar (1905-1995) and Edward Schillebeeckx (1914- ).
The Collect for the day:
O God of the prophets, you opened the eyes of your servant Dominic to perceive a famine of hearing the word of the Lord, and moved him, and those he drew about him, to satisfy that hunger with sound preaching, and fervent devotion: Make your Church, dear Lord, in this and every age, attentive to the hungers of the world, and quick to respond in live to those who are perishing; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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