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Church Documents

2015 Liturgical Calendar

Governing Documents

• Order of Preachers – Official Documents
• Rule of the Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic

From The Saints

• Libellus of Jordan of Saxony (WordDoc)
• Catechism of St. Thomas Aquinas (PDF)
• Catechism of St. Thomas Aquinas (Link)

Documents from the Promoter

• Letter to Dominican Laity,  Easter 2003
• Letter to Dominican Laity, Christmas 2002
• Report of the General Chapter of Krakow, Poland, 2004

Lay Dominican Spirituality

• Dr. Jean-Francois Orsini, O.P Love and His People
• fr. Christopher Kiesling, O.P. Dominican Spirituality and Vatican II’s expectations of lay people
• fr. Charles Malatesta, O.P.: The Purpose of the Dominican Laity
• fr. Edward Schillebeeckx, O.P. The Dominican Third Order: “Old and New Style”
• fr. Michael Sweeney, O.P.
• Collaboration with the Laity
• fr. Richard Weber, O.P.: History of the Dominican Laity
• Sherry Weddell: The Strategic Role of Lay Catholics in the Dominican Mission

Dominicana

• Four Pillars of Dominican Life
• Four Priorities of the Order (and five frontiers)

Catholic laity in general

• Vatican II:  Apostolicam Actuositatem (on the Apostolate of Lay People)
• John Paul II: Christifideles Laici (on the Vocation and Mission of the Lay Faithful in the Church and in the World)

The Dominican Family

• John Burchill, O.P. The Gospel Life: One Family, Many Gifts
• Liam Walsh, O.P. Dominican Family: Call & Response

Dominican Spirituality

• Eleanor Carlo, T.O.P. Creative Preaching Through Art: The Dominican Contribution
• Ellen O’Shaughnessy, O.P. The Prophet, Justice, and the Ministry of Spiritual Direction
• fr. Fabian (Stan) Parmisano, O.P. Characteristics of Dominican Prayer
• fr. Edward Schillebeeckx, O.P. Dominican Spirituality or The “Counter-Thread” in the Old Religious Story as The Golden Thread in the Dominican Family-Story
• Giles Hibbert O.P.  Contemplata aliis tradere – The Vocation of the Dominican Order