Saint Dominic is often called “the joyful friar.” That message elucidates when you travel through France over a two-week period, tracing the footsteps that Saint Dominic laid on the land over eight centuries ago. Each year, a group of sisters and lay people make the...
We told the story of the Croix du Sicaire in our first post of this Dominican Faith Series. We told it then because it’s inextricable from who Saint Dominic was and who Dominicans are today. In sum, it is this: Saint Dominic was walking the path from Fanjeaux to...
Day Four began with the themes of the previous day: considering truth, how to find it, and how to carry our hearts along in the process. “As Dominicans, we’re asked to get to reality,” Sister Mary O’Driscoll, OP reminded us the day before....
Day three of the Fanjeaux retreat found us staring at a mountain, contemplating truth. In about 1204, a castle was built on the top of the Château de Montségur, which marks one of the last strongholds of the Cathars in Southern France. The castle became a center of...
Our pilgrimage started in Fanjeaux, Southern France. We stayed at a guesthouse, Le Belvedere, where I had a panoramic view of Fanjeaux from my room. As I looked out and to the left of my balcony, I actually felt I could see Dominic walking up that street with his...
