Dominican Brothers: Conversi, Lay, and Cooperator Friars

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Dominican Brothers: Conversi, Lay, and Cooperator Friars by the noted Dominican author and historian, Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P., captures the rich and elaborative history of the vocation and ministry of Dominican brothers since the very foundation of the Dominican Order in 1216. Through exhaustive and ground-breaking research, Fr. Thompson has uncovered a legion of little known facts and about the history, vitality, permanence, and presence of the vocation and ministry of the Dominican brother (including saints, blesseds, and martyrs) in promoting Dominican fraternal life and the mission of the Order in service to the Church universal. Thompson's work is not limited to a dry historical review of the past; rather, he brings the richness of the past into the present day so that it will promote vocations to the Dominican brotherhood, whose life and ministry are indispensable in the process of renewing and sustaining the fraternal life and ministry of the Order and the Church: preaching and the salvation of souls. This prophetic document also needs to be studied by other religious orders and read in tandem with the Vatican Document, "Identity and Mission of the Religious Brother in the Church," issued by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies for Apostolic Life.

AZW3 file is original. EPUB is edited, stripped of all the footnote etc. tags that didn't point to anything correct.

~14½ min. into Part 2 of "Life in a Dominican Studium before Vatican II (Oakland, 1961)" discusses the Dominican in charge of "cooperator brothers" (that term was used already in 1961?).

ref:19.11: Spain had a "royal inspector of monasteries"! cf. 1917 can. 598

ref:29.2: "Brother Jacques Clément (1567–1589), the conspirator and assassin of King Henry III of France" (cf. Integralism ref:12.167)

ref:35.2: "Pedro d’Ochoa of Santa Catalina, Jaén": "Although he avoided women, Pedro carried on an extensive spiritual correspondence with a female cousin who was a nun. These letters still existed in the nineteenth century; they discussed the Holy Rosary and Dominican life."

ref:38.8 on the Florida missionary Juan de Mena very advertursome story!

ref:41.1 on the "boundary-crossing" mulatto St. Martin de Porres very interesting. "El Sanador " was a donatus /donado /tertiary who, out of humility, didn't become a conversus , yet, unusually, took public solemn vows like a conversus / lay brother. Cites Giuliana Cavallini's biography.

ref:57:10: "Beatnik poet" Br. Antoninus Everson—influenced by Jung, wrote the scandalous Prodigious Thrust , made a famous letter-press printed Bea psaltar, a psychiatrist who had an impure relationship with a few of his mentees, who left the Order and became a Teilhardian—probably wouldn't've drifted into Modernism had Vatican II not opened up religious orders to the spirit of the world; he comments:

One of the reasons I had been dissatisfied with the Order was Vatican II’s emphasis on Orders shifting over from the contemplative to social action. This meant that monasteries were being penetrated with a different spirit.

cf. this Dominican priest, arch-heretic-Küng–student's tragic "self-laicization"

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