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Editorial: Dominicana is Under Construction

Okay, so we're not exactly welding. But Dominicana is in the process of building a brand-new website! As this happens, will be taking a brief summer hiatus....

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Our Mother(?), Who Art in Heaven

No, God is not our mother. He has revealed himself to us as our Father; and yet, we sometimes find him being compared to a mother in Scripture. God uses the image of a mother’s love for her child as a reference point for revealing the depths of his own love for Zion. It turns out, this is a richer image than one might expect at first....

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Queen of Heaven

Always, but especially this month, I encourage you to turn to Mary, who has a special role in the kingdom of heaven. Mary is not only Queen of Heaven; she is also our mother, and a mother always desires her children to come home. Mary desires us to come to our heavenly home....

Queen of Heaven Always, but especially this month, I encourage you to turn to Mary, who has a special role in the kingdom of heaven. Mary is not only Queen of Heaven; she is also our mother, and a mother always de…

The Perfection of the Royalty of Christ by Charles De Koninck

Dominicana presents the first English translation of an essay on Christ's kingship by philosopher and theologian Charles De Koninck. A brief introduction is also included by the translator, Br. John Marie Metilly, O.P....

The Perfection of the Royalty of Christ by Charles De Koninck Dominicana presents the first English translation of an essay on Christ’s kingship by philosopher and theologian Charles De Koninck. A brief introduction is also included by the translator, B…

High Fives and the Final Judgment

After straining your whole being to its breaking point—every nerve tensed, every thought concentrated—the sudden realization of victory explodes with stunning violence. Your mortal frame shakes as it struggles to constrain the exuberant soul that animates it. You then lock eyes with a friend genuinely sharing your joy, as two flames combined into one ferocious blaze. And how can the material body, tasked with making visible the invisible reality of the soul, express such spiritual intensity? Two words: high five....

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Can You Handle the Truth?

During my novitiate year in Cincinnati, I had the pleasure of visiting a 3rd grade classroom every week, with one of my final lessons being on the resurrection of the body. After reading aloud the story of Jesus encountering Thomas, I showed the kids Caravaggio’s "The Incredulity of St. Thomas." They were shocked. Kids were screaming, markers were flying, little girls were pretending to faint. Along with the kids, it leads one to ask: why are Jesus’ wounds still there?...

Can You Handle the Truth? During my novitiate year in Cincinnati, I had the pleasure of visiting a 3rd grade classroom every week, with one of my final lessons being on the resurrection of the body. After reading aloud the …

Paradise

That yearning for the golden “way things used to be” before the “corruption” of the present is the yearning for paradise. God in his mercy, however, did not leave paradise lost, pined and thirsted for, forever (cf. Ps 63). God’s plan of salvation rested in paradise. Thus in the fullness of time God came once more to dwell with men in earthly paradise, the paradise of the Blessed, the walled garden (Song 4:12): the Blessed Virgin Mary....

Paradise That yearning for the golden “way things used to be” before the “corruption” of the present is the yearning for paradise. God in his mercy, however, did not leave paradise lost, pined and thirsted …

I Have Seen the Lord

Tucked away in a dusty valley in the South of France, in the hill country that slopes up from the Mediterranean, there shines in the darkness of a medieval church a strange golden object. This French church and its strange relic tell the story of that Galilean woman who was the first to announce to the world: "He lives."...

I Have Seen the Lord Tucked away in a dusty valley in the South of France, in the hill country that slopes up from the Mediterranean, there shines in the darkness of a medieval church a strange golden object. This Fren…

Grace Cuts Deeper

Holy Saturday can feel somewhat confusing. This quiet day Jesus spent in the tomb is easily overshadowed by the two days that surround it. After all, what reveals God’s love for us any more perfectly than Christ’s Good Friday death on the cross? And what could inspire hope and confidence in our hearts like calling to mind Christ’s triumph over death, which we will sing out in tomorrow’s Easter joy? If the moment when God’s only Begotten Son breathed his last stands before us in all the chilling sharpness of a bright flash of lightning across a starless sky, and if the unspeakable joy of Jesus’ resurrection strengthens our hearts with all the intensity of the most piercing clap of thunder, then Holy Saturday places us in the quiet moment between the lightning and the thunder. On this day that falls so starkly in between two others, we may feel inclined to ask—what is God doing while Christ lay dead and buried?...

Grace Cuts Deeper Holy Saturday can feel somewhat confusing. This quiet day Jesus spent in the tomb is easily overshadowed by the two days that surround it. After all, what reveals God’s love for us any more perfect…