What do you know about St. Dominic?
I am sure you know him as the founder of the Order of
Preachers (OP), also known as the Dominicans.
If you pray the Holy Rosary regularly, as all
Catholics should, you know Mary gave him the Rosary as a powerful spiritual
weapon to win his battle against the Albigensian heretics (Cathars).
But St. Dominic is more than these.
He was known as a very effective preacher. In fact,
his preaching was powerfully persuasive in his fight against heretical
Albigensians. And this is well reflected in the First Reading (1 Corinthians
2:1-10a).
Dominic persuasively preached the mystery of God with
the endorsement of the divine wisdom and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. Of
course, his prayer through the Holy Rosary, as Mary’s psalter, added more power
to convert Albigensian heretics.
These heretics thought that the flesh was a
soteriological obstacle. But Christ has never taught so. Neither Apostle Paul.
If the flesh were to keep us from being saved, then, why Christ had to be
incarnated in the human flesh to save us?
Their gnostic ignorance of the flesh kept them from hearing and seeing what God had prepared, predestined for them. But, thanks to St. Dominic’s patient and persuasive preaching, more and more Albigensians became able to hear and see what God had prepared for them and why He had sent His only begotten Son in the human flesh for them. Through his preaching, endorsed with the divine wisdom, empowered by the Holy Spirit, and fortified with his prayer of the Rosary, St. Dominic saves so many souls of former Albigensian heretics.
St. Dominic and his followers lived a very disciplined
and organized monastic life, detaching themselves from worldly affairs, as
reflected in the Gospel Reading (Luke 9:57-62). This way, they were more
effective in engaging in the secular world to preach the mystery of God and His
Kingdom.
The Roman Catholic Church honors the life of St.
Dominic on August 8.
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