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FOREWORD
This book, written especially for members of St.
Dominic's Third Order, is intended as a guide and
manual to teach them St. Dominic's spirit. They are
to remember that they are truly his children and should
bear his family likeness. They are to dismiss from their
Orders are much of a
minds the error that all religious
muchness, only differing because their members happen
to wear different habits. Each Order has its character,
its function, its special technique and way of approach to
God. The Tertiary must learn about his Order and
absorb its spirit. The present Holy Father in his glorious
Apostolic Letter, Unigenitus Dei Filius, reminds us that
Religious Founders created their Orders in obedience to
"
the inspiration of God. Therefore all who would reproduce
in themselves the stamp and character of the
religious family to which they belong should look to the
origins from which it sprang. They should, following
the examples of the best children of their common
founder, glorify their Father by keeping his Rule and
Precepts, by imbibing his spirit indeed
;
they can only
be regarded as faithfully doing their duty when they
'
follow steadfastly in his footsteps. And their children
for their sakes shall remain for ever ' (Ecclus. xliv. 13)."
book, although written specifically for Tertiaries,
will prove instructive and useful to all members of the
three great branches of St. Dominic's Order. God
grant it may lead all to love more and more our common
heritage and always to rejoice in " the religion ofDominic,
which is a delightful garden, broad, joyous and fragrant."
It only remains for us to express our gratitude to an
anonymous Tertiary, first for translating this book and
secondly for generously applying all the profits of the
work to benefit Father Bede Jarrett's foundation at
Oxford.
BERNARD DELANY, O.P.
September 1937.
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