![]() ![]() A 14 th century Dominican goes as far as claiming: “Since our own Constitutions state that the Order of Preachers was founded for the study of Sacred Scripture and the salvation of our neighbour … we ought to know that we are bound to love books!” “How distressed I should be to have read all those books I would just have got a splitting headache and lost precious time, which I have simply spent in loving God” sighs Thérèse, while the love of books found its way into the Dominican tradition at an early stage. ![]() Dominic resolutely captures and plucks the bird, and that is the end of it. ![]() Dominic and a bird, is the one where the devil disguised as a bird distracts Dominican nuns from listening to Dominic’s preaching. says, the Dominicans tend to take a more “robust approach”, hesitating to use “sugary and sentimental” language, and the only famous story involving St. Little Thérèse’s overflowing affectivity, her devotion to the Child Jesus and her frequent mention of flowers and birds may perhaps appeal to a Franciscan heart but, as Timothy Radcliffe O.P. Thérèse of Lisieux and the Dominican tradition. “What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” Tertullian’s rhetorical question concerning the relationship between philosophy and the Gospel could perhaps be transposed to the relationship between St. ![]()
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