{"id":362,"date":"2016-05-02T15:30:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T19:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2016-04-21T00:53:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T04:53:08","slug":"devotion-to-st-dominic-a-brief-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/devotion-to-st-dominic-a-brief-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotion to St Dominic, a brief review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Devotion-Saint-Dominic-%C3%89tienne-Vayssi%C3%A8re\/dp\/0615966950\/ref=pd_bxgy_14_2?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=10KP587J4QYVC2DW3FCC\">Devotion to St. Dominic<\/a>\u00a0is a rather short work written by the Provincial of Toulouse (at the time), and he exhorts\u00a0and calls\u00a0his fellow religious to rediscover the gifts of St. Dominic in the Dominican Order.<\/p>\n<p>I powered through the book in probably one or two hours (it was not a very long or hard read), but it was chock full of someone who showed great filial devotion to his holy father St. Dominic.<\/p>\n<p>Having read it, I&#8217;d say it is most fitting, obviously, for the brethren of the Order, as it was directed towards them and is focused on becoming a greater son of Dominic. \u00a0However, it would be fruitful, I think, for anyone discerning a vocation with Dominic&#8217;s illustrious Order of Friars Preachers (either in clerical priesthood or the Third Order\/Lay Dominicans).<\/p>\n<p>It was also translated by Fr. George Christian, OP, who spent a number of his years at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlb.org\/\">St. Louis Bertrand<\/a> in Louisville, KY, and who is now assigned to <a href=\"http:\/\/stdominicchurch.org\/\">St. Dominic&#8217;s<\/a> in Washington, DC, which makes it more interesting (Fr. Christian, OP is quite the translator, as he has a number of other works under his belt!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Devotion to St. Dominic\u00a0is a rather short work written by the Provincial of Toulouse (at the time), and he exhorts\u00a0and calls\u00a0his fellow religious to rediscover the gifts of St. Dominic in the Dominican Order. I powered through the book in probably one or two hours (it was not a very long or hard read), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[6,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic","category-dominican","category-tradition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6hA2G-5Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}