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Four Pillars of Dominican Life

The four pillars of Dominican life are prayer, community life, study, and ministry/apostolate. Dominicans center their lives around Christ through daily prayer and meditation. They live in community, sharing all things in common and pursuing a shared vision of preaching. Study is also essential, as Dominicans were founded on preaching sacred truths learned from universities. Their ministry involves various missionary works like preaching, teaching, and social justice through campus, parish, and retreat settings.

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Four Pillars of Dominican Life

The four pillars of Dominican life are prayer, community life, study, and ministry/apostolate. Dominicans center their lives around Christ through daily prayer and meditation. They live in community, sharing all things in common and pursuing a shared vision of preaching. Study is also essential, as Dominicans were founded on preaching sacred truths learned from universities. Their ministry involves various missionary works like preaching, teaching, and social justice through campus, parish, and retreat settings.

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FOUR PILLARS OF

DOMINICAN LIFE
Four Pillars

• Prayer
• Community Life
• Study
• Ministry/ Apostolate
Prayer
• We, Dominicans, center our lives on the Christ, the
True Light. And we are moved by the Holy Spirit,
who radiates God’s healing presence in the world
today.
• We celebrate the Word in daily common prayers,
meditation, study, and especially in preaching. Our
lives are nourished by God’s Word as revealed
through the Sacred Scripture, celebrated by way
of the Eucharist, and encountered in the everyday
of our lives.
Community Life
• The communal dimension of the religious life of the
Dominicans is a challenge to nurture a mind and heart that
are one with the Divine Will.
• Profession into the Order of Preachers includes the promise
to hold all things in common—to live and pray together,
sharing the common vision in the ministration of preaching.
• This apostolic poverty, which follows the ways of the Christ,
is in fact the essence of living that the Order’s founder, St.
Dominic de Guzman, wanted us, his brothers, to pursue—
that “we call nothing our own.” Because, for Dominicans,
blessings are shared with the rest of the world.
Study
•
Sacred Preaching” was no small innovation in the thirteenth
“

century when education was not readily available.


• Acknowledging that those who would preach should be learned,
Father Dominic sent the earlier brothers to the universities of
Europe to enrich their knowledge before they were set forth to
preach and, of course, share what they had learned by
establishing centers of learning.
• This sacred union of the preaching and study, which the Order
has anchored since its beginning, has built and continued up to
this day a rich tradition that has benefited both the Church and
civil societies.
Ministry or Apostolate
• The Dominican life, with its active and
contemplative aspects, is devoted to missionary
works—preaching, teaching, and works of
social justice in a variety of settings.
• These are through campus ministries, parishes,
colleges and universities, and retreats houses,
which are entrusted to the Order’s
administration. At present, there are the seven
priorities of the Dominican Province of the
Philippines.
•Laudare, benedicere, praedicare
To praise, to bless and to preach
(from the Dominican
Missal, Preface of the Blessed
Virgin Mary)
•Veritas
Truth
•Contemplare et contemplata aliis
tradere
To study and to hand on the fruits of
study (or, to contemplate and to
hand on the fruits of
contemplation)
•One in faith, hope, and love

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