{"id":25637,"date":"2010-08-08T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/08\/saint-dominic-de-guzman-1\/"},"modified":"2010-08-08T08:00:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T12:00:16","slug":"saint-dominic-de-guzman-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/08\/saint-dominic-de-guzman-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Dominic de Guzman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">The Lord opened his mouth in the assembly, and filled him with the spirit of wisdom and understanding, and clothed him in a robe of glory.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><i>God of truth, You gave Your Church a new light in the life and preaching of our father Dominic. Give us the help we need to support our preaching by holy and simple lives.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Blessed Cecilia&#8217;s description of Saint Dominic is how we know what he looked liked. &nbsp;And we have to be grateful for ancient chroniclers! They not only feed our curiosity but they show us concrete expressions of how God works through humanity &#8230; Descriptions like this one help us imagine what a person 8 centuries looked which helps to connect more closely to his reality. Blessed Cecilia wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Garamond, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/rosalimx.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Dominic detail.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/08\/rosalimx-thumb-285x345-7036.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"345\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">&#8220;This was St Dominic&#8217;s appearance. He was of<br \/>\nmiddle height and slender figure, of handsome and somewhat ruddy countenance,<br \/>\nhis hair and beard of auburn, and with lustrous eyes. From out his forehead and<br \/>\nbetween his eye brows a radiant light shone forth, which drew everyone to<br \/>\nrevere and love him. He was always joyous and cheerful, except when moved to<br \/>\ncompassion at anyone&#8217;s sorrows. His hands were beautiful and tapering; his<br \/>\nvoice was clear, noble, and musical; he was never bald, but kept his religious<br \/>\ntonsure entire, mingled here and there with a few grey hairs.&#8221; (<span style=\"color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.domcentral.org\/trad\/brethren\/breth03.htm#03intro\">From the<br \/>\nLegend of St. Dominic by Bl. Cecilia Cesarini)<\/a><\/span><\/span><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">A blessed feast of Saint Dominic, the great light to the Church!<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord opened his mouth in the assembly, and filled him with the spirit of wisdom and understanding, and clothed him in a robe of glory. God of truth, You gave Your Church a new light in the life and preaching of our father Dominic. Give us the help we need to support our preaching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/08\/saint-dominic-de-guzman-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Dominic de Guzman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1714,2429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}