Happy Feast Of St. Dominic!

[VeniteAdoremus]

Yes, it's August 8 where I live

[Deus te Amat]

I'm going to Mass in the AM. I'm planning on wearing one of my B&W outfits.

[VeniteAdoremus]

Believe it or not, I don't have a black or a white skirt

So that's going to be a black and white t-shirt and either a pink or orange skirt...

I'm so looking forward to the Office of Readings! I haven't peaked yet.

[Deus te Amat]

Well, I have either: a white OR black dress shirt, or a white t-shirt with a cross and the word "purity" in black, and a black skirt with white designs or a white skirt with black designs. I dont know which I'm going to wear yet.


Office of readings!! Very excited.

[dominicansoul]

HAPPY DAY TO ALL!!!! ST. DOMINIC, ORA PRO NOBIS!!!!!!!!!

let's PARTAY!!!!!

Dta, you and I think alike!!! B&W is my color for this day too. But nothing beats what I used to wear:

[img]http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh165/hamburgerpatty_2008/meinmyhabit.jpg[/img]

me in 2005...

[DameAgnes]

Lovely pic. I've always wondered, are the habits cumbersome to wear, with the rosary beads so long, and the scapular?

[dominicansoul]

They feel very comfortable. And they make you more beautiful than you have ever been in your whole life! Also, the first time you wear it, something really happens to your mannerisms. You become transformed into a very graceful lady...even if you've been a tomboy all your life...

The Rosary was always breaking, because it was gigantic, and it got caught on everything. I know I just said it made me graceful, but I think I had a lot of trouble keeping things in place...like my cape would go sideways all the time. And, once, my belt broke and all the things I had attached to my belt made a huge crashing noise in the De Profundis hall (to the delight of the rest of the sisters who had a great laugh over that...when the belt is off the habit, it flows freely, and there is more material in the Dominican habit than anything. You can fit 5 sisters in one when it isn't sewn to form....it wasn't cumbersome, though...it was very very comfortable...)

The Scapular was special, and we couldn't sit on it, so we had to always move it out of the way before sitting down. I loved the practice of kissing our scapulars after we genuflected.

Edited August 7, 2008 by dominicansoul

[VeniteAdoremus]

Okay, in the hopes that I won't fall asleep at mass (9AM mass starts in 8.5 hours) I'm going to bed now

Oh, and don't forget to pray for the [i]massive[/i] amounts of couples getting married today in an effort by the woman to help her future husband remember the date

[shortnun]

[quote name='VeniteAdoremus' post='1620653' date='Aug 7 2008, 06:30 PM']Oh, and don't forget to pray for the [i]massive[/i] amounts of couples getting married today in an effort by the woman to help her future husband remember the date [/quote]
That is so true!!! I love it.

As for me... I need to find a very early mass and hopefully stay awake!!!

[DiscerningSoul]

I'll be taking a friend to Divine Mercy hour at the Little Sisters of the Poor in Enfield CT. at 8pm to 9pm
Of course I will have to wear my black skirt and white blouse in honor of St.Dominic.

[RosaMystica]

Today was the last day of my novena to St. Dominic. I've developed a close friendship with him, I think, in these past nine days. Who knows, maybe one day I'll be Sr. Domenica

[Saint Therese]

I switched shifts with a co-worker so I will be able go to Mass before work. I'm really looking forward to being able to celebrate the Feast by going to Mass. Plus, I plan to make it a special day of prayer to St. Dominic about my vocation situation. Yay!

[Selah]

Oh, I wish I could go to Mass tomorrow. I have to work But I am sure I can do something in his honor! What kind of things do Dominicans do?

[DominicanPhilosophy]

HAPPY FEAST OF ST. DOMINIC!

Though I don't have a picture of myself in a habit [someday, though, God-willing!; and DominicanSoul, the picture is awesome!], I'll post a picture of "my" sisters with some of their brothers in Christ!

[img]http://www.nashvilledominican.org/News/Community_News/Photos/holy%20father%20photos/dc%20shrine/DSC04342.JPG[/img]

O Lumen

O lumen Ecclesiae
Doctor veritatis,
Rosa patientiae,
Ebur casitatis,
Aquam sapientiae
propinasti gratis,
Praedicator gratiae,
nos junge beatis.

Light of the Church
Teacher of truth,
Rose of patience,
Ivory of chastity,
You freely offered
The waters of wisdom,
Preacher of grace,
Unite us with the blessed.

[img]http://www.nashvilledominican.org/Prayer/The_Contemplative_Dimension/Photos/Dominic_at_Cross.jpg[/img]

ORA PRO NOBIS!

[Saint Therese]

[quote]What kind of things do Dominicans do? [/quote]
Pray the Rosary , study ..oh and laugh !

[Selah]

You look so pretty, Dominican Soul!

[Maria Faustina]

[quote name='dominicansoul' post='1620636' date='Aug 7 2008, 07:18 PM']HAPPY DAY TO ALL!!!! ST. DOMINIC, ORA PRO NOBIS!!!!!!!!!

let's PARTAY!!!!!

Dta, you and I think alike!!! B&W is my color for this day too. But nothing beats what I used to wear:

[img]http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh165/hamburgerpatty_2008/meinmyhabit.jpg[/img]

me in 2005...[/quote]

You look sooo beautiful!!!! Happy St. Dominic Day everyone! Spiritual party time! lol

[Thomist-in-Training]

I'm so stupid! I didn't remember it was today, because I thought it was on the 4 or so, because I've been using a Lives of the Sts from 1950 or something, which has different days... Even though I saw this post last night, I didn't realize this morning when I headed to Mass at the Priory why they I could smell incense and everything, until I got inside. They sang the Mass parts, too. It was a right treat.

[i] Buona festa[/i]!

[dominicansoul]

Thank you all! Hopefully, God willing, I will wear the precious habit once again....



HAPPY FEAST!

I have to work all day, but I placed my favorite pic of St. Dominic on my computer desktop here at work and I'll go to Mass at lunch time.

I am thinking and praying for all of you, and for all my beautiful friends who have given their total selves to bring light to the darkness of our world...(those beautiful Dominicans in the monasteries, convents, priories....those cloistered and on the "front lines...")

God bless all of you!

Pray for me! (I need it!)

[rosamundi]

Happy Feast day to all Dominicans, nearly-Dominicans, and anyone who just likes St Dominic!

[b]The Chaplet of St. Dominic,[/b] also called "A Cry of Anguish" because it used in times of distress. It may be prayed on a normal rosary.

On the large beads, pray the [b]O Spem Miram[/b]:

V. O wonderful hope, which thou gavest to those who wept for thee, at the hour of thy death, promising, after thy departure, to be helpful to thy brethren!
R. Fulfil, O father, what thou hast said, and help us by thy prayers.

V. O thou who didst shine illustrious by so many miracles, wrought on the bodies of the sick, bring us the help of Christ to heal our sick souls.
R. Fulfil, O father, what thou hast said, and help us by thy prayers.

V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
R. Fulfil, O father, what thou hast said, and help us by thy prayers.

V. Pray for us blessed father Dominic.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray. O God, who hast enlightened Thy Church by the eminent virtues and preaching of blessed Dominic, Thy confessor and our father, mercifully grant that by his prayers it may never lack temporal help, and may ever increase in all spiritual good. Through Christ Our Lord. [b]Amen.[/b]

On the small beads, pray:

Holy Father, cast thy mind
on the work thy hands designed;
In the Judge's presence stand
For thy poor and lowly band.

At the end, pray:

V. Pray for us, O Holy Father, St. Dominic.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

God, whose property it is always to have mercy and to spare, we humbly beseech Thee, that we, who spoil the works of Thy glory by our sins and are justly afflicted for what we have done, may, by the merits and intercession of blessed Dominic, Thy confessor and our father, be comforted in our trials, and ever obey Thy divine will. Through Jesus Christ, Thy Son. [b]Amen[/b].