tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post4081565339543740005..comments2024-03-29T00:16:25.097-07:00Comments on The Eponymous Flower: As 800th Anniversary of the Founding of the Dominicans Nears, Birthplace of Thomism is ClosedTancredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16015531337154301560noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-26093759532540393522014-01-12T16:09:50.086-08:002014-01-12T16:09:50.086-08:00First of all, you're not my friend. Second of ...First of all, you're not my friend. Second of all, the Doninican Order was recognized by the Bishop of Toulouse in 1215. Finally, put the high hat on here again and I'll just delete your carefully crafted comments before anyone has the pleasure to read it.Tancredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16015531337154301560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-67602916824404285292014-01-12T13:02:25.654-08:002014-01-12T13:02:25.654-08:00From a Dominican friar (due to technical problems ...From a Dominican friar (due to technical problems he was unable to post personally and asked me to do so on his behalf)...<br /><br />The Dominican Order was approved in 1216 (precisely December 22), not 1215.<br />I think it is infantile to make a meaningful discourse on the state of the Order in Europe without taking into account the socio-cultural and economic factors. How can you mention the suppression of he Orders and just pass it by?<br />I understand that everything bad came with the Council. But if it did, you only need to examine the 60 years before the Council and what was happening before making a conclusion. This is very important.<br />In most parts of Europe, birthrate has fallen to a level not seen before in recent times. Where would vocations come from if there are not children? You go to Churches in most places and you find only the aged - many of whom have no children at all. How can you talk about a fall in vocations without taking that into account? Should angels come and join the Order?<br />Closure of Convents in consequence, is inevitable (and not just thinking like economic administrators). The case of Graz took the Dominicans of Austria/Southern Germany a long time and a long "battle". But you pay tax on buildings, you maintain them and make repairs. When all of the income you have cannot even maintain one brother, not to mention buildings, what do you do? This is similar to the situation elsewhere, but let us be realistic!<br />To those who think the Order is therefore doomed, buildings are not what makes the Order. (Neither is Thomism a building; it is a thought!) Tom Ryan has posted (in whatever sense) "the New Springtime" of friars in Poland - there are over 100 students. Ireland has been reporting new vocations yearly. The overall status of the Dominicans shows an immense increase in numbers in the last 15 or so years. Of course, brothers from Poland or Vietnam or Nigeria can man those convents while still keeping theirs filled to the brim. But other local European factors are at hand! It is more than Vatican II, my friend.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138466671302330368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-72799306140062621832014-01-11T10:46:36.685-08:002014-01-11T10:46:36.685-08:00The New Springtime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...The New Springtime<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI6bRNLhgp8Tom Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07689710636549223681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-31341390697121272422014-01-10T20:19:27.618-08:002014-01-10T20:19:27.618-08:00Just you wait, they will demolish the Sistine Chap...Just you wait, they will demolish the Sistine Chapel and melt Bernini's Baldacchino to sell and give to the poor, just like Judas Iscariot's indignation against that pious woman's application of ointment unto the Lord. <br /><br />Maybe the Vatican would be handed over to the Italian government and St. Peter's Basilica will become what Hagia Sophia is now- a godless corpse of a once living place of worship. <br /><br />Orchestras and choirs will still perform, of course. Just not for the glory of God, but the glory of man. And how we'll congratulate ourselves for a job well done as tourists with their unruly children gawk at the remains of our Popes and the bones of St. Peter. It's all history at that point. <br /><br />We cannot dialogue with things that seek our destruction, it is a cancer that must be fought as hard as possible with as much force and zeal and purpose so that it will be destroyed, never to spread its poison again. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-29793020979589930762014-01-10T18:39:22.967-08:002014-01-10T18:39:22.967-08:00Ah, yes, the many "fruits of Vatican II"...Ah, yes, the many "fruits of Vatican II".Lyndahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714204002726632689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-88768241150996402142014-01-10T12:35:39.252-08:002014-01-10T12:35:39.252-08:00Obviously the 'spirit' of the Council was ...Obviously the 'spirit' of the Council was a most evil spirit that has attempted to destroy the holy Faith.Clinton R.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-65349187280856489852014-01-10T04:03:58.720-08:002014-01-10T04:03:58.720-08:00Will the Vatican be pleased that they do not have ...Will the Vatican be pleased that they do not have to appoint a commissioner to bring down the Order then? Saves the trouble that way. We know that a true and flourishing Order is not wanted. The FI, in many if not most cases, took over abandoned monasteries but we know what is happening to them and already there is the forced closing of a number of friaries including seminary and shrines and NOT for lack of friars but because their faithful--and post conciliar!--traditionalism is a crime against the 'spirit of the Council' which obviously is not the Holy Spirit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com