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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

New Books

 Announcements of New lay Dominican Books

Books from Barnes & Noble Press www.bnpress.com

The Courage and Will to Preach: Lay Dominicans at the Edge of the World”

“Now is the acceptable time,” the General Chapter of Quezon City, 1977 begins, “for the Dominican family to achieve true equality and complementarity among its different branches.”

To achieve true equality, the laity of the Order of Preachers must accept co-responsibility for the doctrinal mission – preaching. Since 1971 the General Chapters of the Order – the ruling body – have made calls such as this conjuring a vision of the laity, which none of us have. The Acta of the Order since 1971 has added step-by-step an understanding that the culture is becoming increasingly secularized and relativistic and sliding wholly toward the abyss. With a significant drop in friar vocations since 1975, the General Chapters are calling for those members of the Order of Preachers who live and work in the secular places where this is happening. The laity.

This book draws together all of the Acta, presents a postmodern worldview model for us to understand the problems, delivers us a brief view of theology that the General Chapters have called upon us to study. In addition the book covers how lay Dominicans prepare to face the secular world from a preaching standpoint, how to study the Social Doctrine of the Church as a guidebook for preaching, how to discover and engage the “signs of the times”, a practical program for learning social and cultural issues, gives us a way forward, and introduces the Institute for lay Dominican Preaching, a virtual Institute in its infancy.

This is a revolutionary book for those who feel called to take their rightful place in the Order.

Now, is the acceptable time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Theological Principles for lay Dominican’s Preaching”

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Description automatically generatedThe Acta of the General Chapters – the ruling body of the Order – and letters from the Masters of the Order, make it clear that it is necessary for lay Dominicans to study basic theology, or the science of God.

These theological principles cover such things as Faith and Reason, the Objective the Existence of God, Jesus, God as Trinity, the Nature of the Church, Mary, Sacramental Life, and Eschatology, all in a specific learning format that can be delivered as a year-long ongoing formation course for all lay Dominican chapters.

This book is the first of its kind.

 

“Handbook for Ongoing lay Dominican Formation”

For all these years, Ongoing Formation has had no specific course or plan. Lay chapters decide if they want to study devotional subjects such as Catherine’s Dialogues, writings by other Dominicans, or more histories, never understanding that the Acta of the General Chapters have outlined specific things for lay Dominican chapters to study for the purpose of educating and developing lay Dominican preachers, destined to step into the darkness and relativism of the secular world. Subjects include basic theology for preaching, Social Doctrine of the Church, the study of important and necessary documents of the Church teaching allowing lay Dominicans to thoroughly understand, in a practical way, church teaching for the purpose of delivering the Gospels, the Good News, and the Word of Hope to a despairing world.

This book is the first of its kind.

 

Note: Review copies are available for LPC leadership, write:

rbcurti@hotmail.com

Note: print and delivery times will vary; we will send an email to confirm

 

ATTENTION

A new, exciting book is beginning, titled, “Devotional to Preaching: Nudging Devotional Lay Dominicans into the 21st Century”

In this book, we will discuss the history, background, and methodologies for lay Dominican preaching in the many places in the secular world where it is needed. We are hoping for unique preaching stories. For example: “Preaching in Norfolk” is the story of a lay Chapter in Massachusetts that holds its chapters meetings inside the Norfolk Prison. Master of the Order, Timothy Radcliffe called this, his “favorite lay chapter.”

If you know of keenly unique preaching missions – not the same as apostolates – that required use of theology, Social Doctrine of the Church, Catechism (not catechesis or apologetics), and other documents of the Church in an immersive way, forward them for consideration. This could be a lasting testament to lay Dominicans taking up the mantle of co-responsibility for the doctrinal Mission of the Order, as the General Chapters – the ruling body of the Order – have established since 1971 in Tallaght, Ireland.

Send all stories to rbcurti@hotmail.com

Be part of the new reality, the new understanding of lay Dominican vocation!

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