Personal Prayer
All our preaching, and our entire lives, comes from our prayer. It is essential to our lives. We're expected to spend at least 30 minutes every day in mental prayer.
In so many ways, spiritual practices encouraged for Dominican friars are in tune with popular modern devotions. More and more people today find solace in Jesus’ Eucharistic presence, both in the Mass and in Adoration, and this fits right in with Dominican spirituality.
We also regularly advocate and do Lectio Divina, meditating on Scripture and its meaning in our lives today.
Dominican Friars are to seek the daily intercession of Mary – a special patroness of our Order – in the Rosary as an essential part of Dominican prayer. Finally, many are attracted to silence.
And if words fail, it’s always acceptable to stop speaking, and to just sit in silence, alert to the presence of the Lord.
In so many ways, spiritual practices encouraged for Dominican friars are in tune with popular modern devotions. More and more people today find solace in Jesus’ Eucharistic presence, both in the Mass and in Adoration, and this fits right in with Dominican spirituality.
We also regularly advocate and do Lectio Divina, meditating on Scripture and its meaning in our lives today.
Dominican Friars are to seek the daily intercession of Mary – a special patroness of our Order – in the Rosary as an essential part of Dominican prayer. Finally, many are attracted to silence.
And if words fail, it’s always acceptable to stop speaking, and to just sit in silence, alert to the presence of the Lord.
