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COMMENTARY: We try to live the family’s life, which reflects their teaching, and we eventually understand, or maybe not. But we live it, because it’s our fami...
“Prayer is too often reduced to hard and fast rules, is mapped out and labelled and regimented till it hardly seems at all to be the language of the heart.”
The amount and endurance of our future work depends on the developed character and formation that we bring into the process.
COMMENTARY: Dominican Father Bede Jarrett’s 1922 essay rings especially true today.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (CNS) -- In the past several years, an increasing number of Providence College graduates have pursued a vocation with the Dominican order that runs the Rhode Island university. 'During the five years I was in Providence, we had at least one student enter the novitiate at the end of each year,' said Dominican Father Michael Weibley, whose first assignment after ordination was as a chaplain and professor at Providence College. 'An average of a novice a year like that is a tremen