Gina Ciliberto reflects on Dominic’s itinerancy not just as a physical mode, but as a spiritual way of being. https://ophope.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Gina-DomdeG.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS |...
The short answer is: O.P. stands for the ‘Order of Preachers,’ the name of the Dominican Order. But, why are Dominicans called the Order of Preachers? The answer necessitates a look back at history, back at Saint Dominic himself. In 1170, Domingo Félix de Guzmán was...
We had been in France for a week, and I didn’t have any huge realizations about life, just a few very simple ones, a few smoothed shells plucked from the shore of the sea. We climbed up to the town Saint Paul de Vence all of us in a minivan; the full-size van...
art by Félix Hernández, OP 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...