Didjareadit?1.Why do the Dominican’s have a dog as their logo?2.Name the heresy that St. Dominic fought.3.Why did Dominic sell his books when he was finishing his Theological studies?4.What is the official name of the Dominican Order?

TRUE OR FALSE?

5. Dominic did not invent the rosary.6. Dominic imitated the poverty of St. Francis.7. The word “mendicant” referred to a beggar and/or a cripple in the Latin.8.Mendicants are usually monks or nuns.9.Other religions have mendicants.10.Dominic is preached, died, and was buried in Rome, Italy.

Extra Credit: Why is Dominic depicted in art with a start about his forehead?

MENDICANTS• Mendicant (plural mendicants): late 14c., from Latin mendicantem

(nominative mendicans) present participle of mendicare "to beg, ask alms," from mendicus "beggar," originally "cripple" (connection via cripples who must beg), from menda "fault, physical defect.”A pauper who lives by begging.– A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a

living.• A MENDICANT was a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious

orders who assumed a vow of poverty and supported himself or herself by work and charitable contributions.

• Mendicants should be referred to as friars rather than monks, because in Christianity the term monk implies fixity of residence and friars are by definition peripatetic

• The mendicant orders surviving today are the Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians (Augustinian Hermits), Carmelites, Trinitarians, Mercedarians, Servites, Minims, Hospitalers of St. John of God, and the Teutonic Order.

• The two great founders of the orders of mendicant friars were St. Dominic, who founded the Dominican order in 1216, and St. Francis of Assisi, who founded the Franciscan order in 1210.

• Within a generation of their deaths, their institutes had spread throughout Europe and into Asia, and their friars could be numbered by tens of thousands.

• In all the great cities of western Europe, friaries were established, and in the universities theological chairs were held by Dominicans and Franciscans.

• Later in the 13th century they were joined by the other great mendicant orders of Carmelites, Augustinian Hermits, and Servites.

• The idea of poverty was St. Francis’ root idea, and there is little doubt—though it has been disputed—that it was borrowed from him by St. Dominic and the other mendicant founders. St. Francis did not intend that begging and alms should be the normal means of sustenance for his friars; on the contrary, he intended them to live by the work of their hands and to have recourse to begging only when they could not earn their livelihood by work.

• But as the friars soon came nearly all to be priests devoted to spiritual ministrations and as the communities grew larger, it became increasingly difficult for them to support themselves by personal work; and so begging came to play a greater role than had been contemplated by St. Francis.

• His idea certainly was that his friars should not only practice the utmost personal poverty and simplicity but that they should have the minimum of possessions—no lands, no funded property, no fixed sources of income.

Other Types of Mendicants … (Not Christian Orders)

JAPANESE MONKSJAINISM (INDIA)

ZEN

VIDEO

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2sTUMMkmQQ

Symbols for Dominican Order

BASILICA OF ST. DOMIMIC

 is one of the major churches in Bologna, Italy. The remains

of Saint Dominic, founder of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans),

are buried inside the exquisite shrine Arca di San Domenico, made

by Nicola Pisano and his workshop, Arnolfo di Cambio and

with later additions by Niccolò dell'Arca and the young

Michelangelo.

GESTURES & POSTURES IN PRAYER

Standing:• Eyes open, looking up• Hands uplifted with the palms up

•This is the oldest posture for prayer. It is called the orans position, from the Latin word for praying. By praying this way, the worshiper acknowledges God as external and transcendent. This posture is for thanksgiving, praises, blessings, benedictions, and general prayers. This is still the normal position for prayers in eastern churches and in Jewish synagogues, and it is still used in the western church, particularly when the clergy bless the bread and wine of the Eucharist.

Standing:• Looking down with eyes averted or closed• Hands clasped at the waist

•This is the traditional posture of a shackled prisoner of war who is brought before the conquering king. The hands are clasped at the waist as if they were shackled in chains. The eyes are averted—in ancient times, looking directly at one’s captor was insolent and a good way to get killed on the spot. This posture is for submissive petitions or for intercessory or penitential prayer, as we see in Luke 18:10-13.

Kneeling:   Eyes open, looking up   Hands uplifted with the palms up      —OR—   Looking down with eyes averted or closed   Hands folded•This is the traditional posture for requesting favors from a king, and so it became the traditional posture for prayers of repentance or supplication. The Council of Nicaea in AD 325 forbade kneeling on Sundays, because penitential prayer is not appropriate during a celebration of the Resurrection. In western Christianity, kneeling came to mean simple humility and submission, and so kneeling became the normal posture for most prayers in the west. However, to eastern Christians, kneeling still means repentance or supplication.•Some western churches have kneelers so the congregation can pray in the pews. Others do not have kneelers, but when people gather at the altar railing, they kneel.

Lying prostrate to pray

•Prostrate:• Lying on one’s belly• Looking down with eyes averted or closed

•This is the traditional posture for begging favors from a king when the favors are great and the petitioner is either desperate or has no standing before the king even in the literal sense. It became the traditional posture for desperate, penitential, or intercessory prayer and is still used in eastern churches, which have plenty of room because they don’t have pews.

Sitting:   Looking down with eyes averted or closed   Hands folded•The Roman Catholic Church invented pews during the Middle Ages, right before the Protestant Reformation. Since the Protestant Reformation was essentially a Christian education movement with very long sermons, the Protestants kept the pews even though they rejected just about everything else they regarded as a ‘Roman invention.’ As a result, sitting has become the normal posture for prayer for many western congregations.•In 2 Samuel 7:18, David sat to pray. However, sitting for prayer was not prevalent until after the invention of pews.

http://www.kencollins.com/worship/pray-20.htm

Dominic’s 9 Ways of Prayer

• The Nine Ways of Prayer of St. Dominic was written by an anonymous author, probably at Bologna, sometime between 1260 and 1288.

• This venerable document testifies to the eminent holiness of the Saint, showing something of his intimate life and intense love of God.

• The early manuscripts of the work were accompanied by miniature drawings to illustrate the various postures St. Dominic took while he was at prayer.

The Inclination

Prostration

Penance (Flagellation)

Genuflection

Contemplation

Earnest Intercession

Supplication

Thoughtful Reading

On The Journey