RE 11 – Truth Seeker

SECOND SEMESTER: THIRD QUARTER

Unit 1. The Dominican Charism and Heritage

Lesson 10. The Founder of the Order of Lesson 12. Great Dominican Saints as Models
Preachers and his Ideals of Holiness

• Biography of Sto. Domingo de Guzman • St. Thomas Aquinas

• Dominic’s devotion to Mary, the Mother • St. Albert the Great
of God and Queen of the Rosary
• St. Vincent Ferrer
• Dominican Motto:
• St. Martin de Porres
• Contemplata AliisTradere
• St. Pius V ( Pope)
• Passion for Truth and Compassion for
• St. Rose of Lima
Humanity
• Blessed Margarette Castello
• Veritas

Lesson 13. Dominican Charism and

Lesson 11. Dominant Movements in the
Spirituality
History of the Dominican Order
• Mission of Preaching the Gospel
• Prayer (Contemplative and Liturgical Life)
• Creation of the Dominican Family
• Study ( Doctrinal Life )
• Commitment to Justice and
Intelligent Life • Service ( Apostolic Life )
• Ecclesial Identity of the Order of • Community (Sacrificial and Fraternal Life)
Preachers
• Saint Dominic (Spanish: Santo Domingo), also known
as Dominic of Osma andDominic of Caleruega, often
called Dominic de Guzmán and Domingo Félix de
Guzmán (8 August 1170 – 6 August 1221), was a
Castilian priest and founder of the Dominican
Order. Dominic is the patron saint of astronomers.
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St Dominic was mostly known as St Dominic but his real
full name was St Dominic De Guzman
• St Dominic , real full name was St Dominic De Guzman
and he also started the order of Preachers
• born in about 1173 in Caleruega, Spain
• St Dominic had two brothers named Antonio and
Mannes. His moms name was Jane and his Dad was
Felix.
• St Dominic’s parents were very Dominican people
because they both always helped the poor and always
went to church with St Dominic and his brothers
nearly every day.
St Dominic was a great man
• The symbol of a dog with a flame represents
St Dominic when his mum dreamed that she
would give birth to a dog who would hold a
torch in its mouth and burn the world.
• Some other symbols that represent St Dominic
de Guzman are sunflowers, Oranges, empty
bowl, books and one of the main symbols is
Veritas this symbol represents him because it
means Truth and St Dominic was a very
truthful man and never lied.
• St Dominic studied very hard every day to
become a priest. He studied at Osma Palencia
and became an assistant priest to the bishop.
Some of the reasons why St Dominic became
a saint was because he raised to life a widow’s
son from the dead. He also in 1191 gave away
all his money, sold his clothes, furniture and
even very precious manuscripts to feed the
hungry.
• St Dominic also sold all his books to other
students even though education was a very
important thing to him. Prayer was a very
special part of St Dominic’s life because his
parents would take him to their local church
called St Sebastian’s nearly every day to show
him how much God really loved him.
• St Dominic was declared a saint in 1224
because he always put others before him and
looked after everyone around him
• St Dominic De Guzman was a very friendly,
helpful and kind person. He is a very well
known saint and is a great inspiration to other
Dominican people. St Dominic De Guzman
died on about August the 6th, in 1221 in
Bolonga, Italy and his feast day in on the 8th of
August and then became a saint after he had
died.
 Dominican Mottos: Veritas
• veritas (truth)
• The other two most commonly quoted are
laudare,benedicere, praedicare (to praise,
to bless, to preach) and
 contemplata aliis tradere (to contemplate
and hand on to others the fruits
of contemplation).
 Dominican Charism

• Passion for Truth and

Compassion for Humanity
Saint Dominic De Guzman
Born :Caleruega, Spain in 1170
Parents :Felix de Guzman,
Blessed Jane Aza
2 priests brothers: Anthony &
Mannes
Died: Bologna, Italy at the age of 50
(1170–1221)
• Blessed Mannes joined St. Dominic
in the Order of Preachers.
• Little is known of his lone sister,
only that she mothered two sons
who later on became Dominicans as
well
• It is said that when Dominic was
baptized, his godmother saw
something like a star shining on
his forehead.
• Again, this symbolized what
Dominic was to be a bearer of
Christ’s light.
Jane of Aza’s dream
• In her dream she saw a spotted dog with
a flaming torch in its mouth, ready to set
the world on fire.
• This dream prefigured what St. Dominic
was to be a preacher who would spread
the light of truth
• At 14, he entered the University of
Palencia where he undertook the
requisite studies for priesthood.
• In Palencia, he learned to live an
ascetic lifestyle, devoting himself to
intense prayer, acts of penance, and
study of theology
• While in Palencia, a severe famine broke
out.
• This tragic even was a result of the war
between the Christians and the Moslems in
Spain.
• Moved with pity towards those who were
dying of hunger, Dominic sold his
possessions, including the books which his
own hands annotated, just to be able to
contribute a little in alleviating the people
from their miserable condition
• In the year 1195, at the age of 24, Dominic
was ordained to the priesthood.
• He was assigned as a Canon Regular in the
Cathedral Chapter of Osma. Canons were
priests directly under the bishop. They took
care of the religious ceremonies in the
Cathedral, as well as of the administration
of parishes in the diocese. The Canons of
Osma followed the Augustinian way of life
In the year 1205,King Alfonso IX of
Castile sent the Bishop of Osma, Don
Diego, to a diplomatic mission to the
Lord of the Marches. The Bishop took
Dominic with him. At that time,
Dominic was the sub-prior of Osma.
This journey would change the course
of Dominic’s life. On their stop
-over in Toulouse, Southern France,
Dominic had a first-hand experience
of the Albigensian Heresy which was
gradually poisoning the faith of
Europe
• The heresy - belief that there are two “gods”
1. god of evil - one responsible for the material
order
2. god of good – one responsible for the spiritual
order

Everything material is evil.

• People resented the human body, food, sex, the
sacraments, and everything material.
• The sooner a person is liberated from
the body, through severe acts of mortification
and even through induced death, the better.
• Due to some unexpected circumstances,
Dominic’s diplomatic mission was aborted.
• Don Diego decided that they would just go
to Rome to have an audience with the Holy
Father, Pope Innocent III, and report on the
sad conditions of those who had fallen into
the Albigensian heresy.
• In response to their report, the Pope
made Bishop Diego the unofficial leader
of a Papal mission to convert the
Albigensians. TheBishop took Dominic
with him. They lived simply, and the
spoke with great conviction. They
engaged in ordinary day-to-day
conversations with people, in contrast to
the formality of other missionaries
• In 1206, not knowing how to start converting the
Albigensians
• Dominic gathered the women he had converted
from the heresy and brought them to Prouille
where they eventually became a community of
nuns. Hence, the first Dominicans were women.
• The Prouille Community served as an information
center, a school for children, and a refuge for
women who escaped the hostile world of the
Albigensians
• In 1206 – he stayed in Narbonne and
undertook the conversion of the Albegenses
• He founded the community of nuns at
Prouille which he made as his base of
operation
• At Toulouse, he established a community,
considered as the cradle of Dominican Order.
• In the year 1216 - pope,
Honorius III, confirmed
the Order of Preachers
• Dominic spent the rest of his
life traveling, preaching the
light of truth, and organizing
new communities.
• On August 6, 1221, (other
sources say August 4) he died in
Bologna on the feast of St.
Sixtus.
• On July 13, 1234, he was canonized
by Pope Gregory IX.

• Dominican – means belonging to

God