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The latest issue of the Dominican Review, the Journal of the Student Brothers of the Eastern Province, is now available. This issue includes a reflection by the editor on the relationship between the theological virtue of hope and the Blessed Sacrament. Also, Br. Ignatius Schweitzer, O.P., writes on “The Holy Name of Jesus and Blessed Henry Suso, O.P.” In an article entitled “Our God is Not Like Other Gods”, Br. Austin Litke, O.P., constasts God’s revelation of himself to Israel and in Christ to the understanding of gods in the ancient pagan religions. Finally, Rev. James Cuddy, O.P., who was just ordained to the priesthood this past May, reflects on the nature of the Holy Eucharist and the feast of Corpus Christi.
The latest issue of the Dominican Review can be read as a .PDF file here.
an Article by Br. Bruno M. Shah, O.P.
I. Playing A Part
During the first days at the seminary, the Master of Students gathers the newly arrived to discover what practical talents are available for the community’s benefit. (We blithely refer to the house’s chores as “privileges.”) Each of our sixty men has some share in the work of home–maintenance–this brother is handy with electrical equipment, that brother has a background in carpentry, this brother is literate in computers, et cetera. Well, this brother claimed that he could cut hair. And for an order that vows evangelical poverty, getting haircuts for free is what philosophers call a “useful good.”
The All Saints vigil is written up in an article by Nick Manetto.
PLEASE NOTE: The article erroneously states that the Dominican House of Studies is the “order’s U.S. seminary.” In fact, the other provinces also have their own studia, and the Vigil of All Saints originated at the Western Province’s Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology.
His two most famous sayings are both negative: “Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ,” and, “The enemies of the Church should be also my enemies.” Perhaps a saint with a gentler temperament — one not hardened by the hot Syrian sun, all-night prayer vigils, and superhuman fasts — perhaps such a saint would have been more positive sounding. But not Jerome, whose feast day is today. He was a controversialist through and through.
Three Dominicans priests tell thier story in a book by Colleen Carroll.
Review: The New Faithful Jim Bowman The New Faithful: Why Young Adults are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy, by Colleen Carroll, Loyola Press, 320 pp.
If you like newspaper feature stories, you will love this book. It applies the formula expertly: general statement, plus survey or on-scene expert remarks, plus interview quotes. Do it over and over, and you repeatedly connect the lines for the distracted reader. So doggedly does Colleen Carroll do this that the reader of this book, even when distracted further by this stop-and-go writing itself, nonetheless gets the point: The young are in rebellion again against their elders — and again in the cause of freedom, novelty, and cutting-edge activities leading, with a little luck, to societal upheaval. Right the first part, but not about freedom, except from libertinism, or novelty or upheaval. They rebel against elders, all right, but not in that same old liberal direction. Instead, they are embracing tradition and the traditional, turning from what their mamas and papas do and think or at least from what the young did and thought when their mamas and papas were young.
They are The New Faithful, and Carroll, 28 years young — twentysomething, she would say — has their number. She has traveled from New York to California, border to border, in search of people her age or thereabouts, mostly Roman Catholics, who have dug in their heels in the face of the liberal juggernaut and dug in for the long haul as committed Christians who won’t say no.
There are the three Dominican brothers, priests to be, draped in white, bearing “easy smiles and the confident air of natural-born leaders . . . tall . . . and handsome,” at the Washington, D.C., House of Studies. One of them “took a trip to Israel and felt the tug of radical commitment.” Another realized God was his “top priority.” His conversion changed his life, making him “so much happier.”
