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26-562: As members of the Order of Preachers, Lay Dominicans are men and women, single or married, living a Christian life with a Dominican spirituality in the secular world. They find inspiration in the spiritual path taken by many saints, blesseds , and other holy men and women throughout the 800-year history of the Dominican Order. The Life of a Dominican layperson incorporates passion for the Word of God into

52-524: A lay sister in the convent of the English Augustinian nuns , but only remained there a week. She became a Dominican tertiary in 1842, and then came to England, proceeding to Coventry where she worked under William Bernard Ullathorne , afterwards Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham , among the factory girls. Presently she was joined by others, and with the consent of the Dominican fathers formed

78-544: A community of Dominican tertiaries, who were to devote themselves to active works of charity. The first vows were made on the feast of the Immaculate Conception , 1845. From Coventry the community moved to Bristol, where several schools were placed under their charge, from there they went to Longton , the last of the pottery towns in Staffordshire . In 1851 the congregation received papal approbation, and in 1852

104-648: A few miles from Stone, and the same year founded an orphanage at the latter place. In 1858 Hallahan went to Rome, to obtain the final confirmation of her constitutions, which was granted, and the congregation was placed under the jurisdiction of the Master General of the Dominicans , who appoints a delegate, generally the bishop of the diocese, to set for him. New foundations were made at Our Lady and St Catherine of Sienna next to Grove Hall in Bow, London , where Hallahan donated

130-584: A local scale until the thirteenth century before settling at the Council of Trent, which reserved to the pope the right to say who could be venerated. Pope John Paul II (1978–2005) markedly changed the previous Catholic practice of beatification. By October 2004, he had beatified 1,340 people, more than the sum of all of his predecessors since Pope Sixtus V (1585–1590), who established a beatification procedure similar to that used today. John Paul II's successor, Pope Benedict XVI (2005–2013), personally celebrated

156-560: A more religious life. Just as the friars and nun, lay Dominicans follow the Rule of St. Augustine, plus the Rule of the Lay Fraternities of Saint Dominic. The obligations of the Laity are: 1) Daily praying of Lauds and Vespers 2) Daily 5 decades of the rosary 3) Daily Our Father, Hail Mary, and Eternal Rest for all Dominicans 4) Daily 15 minutes of mental prayer or Lectio Divina (prayerful reading of

182-509: A publication now in the public domain :  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Third Orders". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company. Beatification Beatification (from Latin beatus , "blessed" and facere , "to make") is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name. Beati

208-475: Is the plural form, referring to those who have undergone the process of beatification; they possess the title of "Blessed" / ˈ b l ɛ s ɪ d / (abbreviation "Bl.") before their names and are often referred to in English as "a Blessed" or, plurally, "Blesseds". Local bishops had the power of beatifying until 1634, when Pope Urban VIII , in the apostolic constitution Cœlestis Jerusalem of 6 July, reserved

234-659: The Beatification Mass for his predecessor at St. Peter's Basilica , on the Second Sunday of Easter, or Divine Mercy Sunday , on 1 May 2011, an event that drew more than one million people. Margaret Hallahan Margaret Hallahan (23 January 1803 – 10 May 1868) was an English Catholic religious sister , foundress of the Dominican Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena (third order). Born in London, Hallahan

260-585: The Blessed Dominic" at the close of the 13th century. This amalgamation is admitted by the Bollandists to have become general in the 14th century. The confraternity was commonly referred to as the Order of Penance and were not specifically called a third order until after papal recognition in 1405. Many held that the condemnation passed on the Beguines and Beghards at the Council of Vienna in 1312 applied no less to

286-973: The Dominican Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena in Coventry , England. In 1850, Boniface Wimmer , a Benedictine from Saint Vincent Abbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania visited the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Ratisbon , Bavaria and persuaded the prioress to send some nuns to minister to German immigrants in America. In 1853, they founded the Congregation of the Holy Cross in Brooklyn, New York. From this, seven additional congregations sprang serving in thirty-five dioceses. Also in

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312-702: The Dominican order in the United States. Also included were the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs, founded in 1830 in Columbus, Ohio as a daughter house of the Kentucky community. An eighth congregation joined in 2012. The Dominican Sisters International Confederation has a membership of 19,407 sisters representing 147 congregations in 109 countries. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from

338-608: The Dominicans while retaining their status as a lay person. At first vaguely constituted and living without system or form, its members gradually grew more and more dependent on their spiritual guides. In 1285 Munio of Zamora , the seventh Master General of the Friars Preachers, formulated a definite Rule for these lay penitents. It was based in part on the rule Francis of Assisi gave the Brothers and Sisters of Penance around 1221. Members who chose to follow this rule would be under

364-644: The Orders of Penance. In consequence the master-general petitioned Pope John XXII in 1326 to clarify the matter. As a result, he answered by a bull of 1 June 1326 (Cum de Mulieribus), which is a long eulogium on the work of the Dominican Third Order. After the plague of 1348, a good deal of laxity and disorganization crept into the Third Order, but there were also a number of saints such as Catherine of Siena whose influence strengthened it. Because they belonged to

390-489: The Premonstratensians, as well. As the Dominican friars established monasteries and priories, there were lay people who assisted them. Many were attracted to the Dominican's way of life, but for various reasons could not themselves join the order. They formed fraternities or religious guilds affiliated with the local priory. This was a way those who sought a more dedicated way of life embraced a lifestyle similar to that of

416-658: The Sacred Scriptures) 5) Daily Mass and communion is recommended 6) Confession at least monthly 7) Attendance at the monthly Chapter meeting 8) Yearly participation at 3 Masses for Dominicans 9) Fasting on the vigils of St. Dominic, St. Catherine of Siena, and Our Lady of the Rosary if possible. There are five provinces of Lay Dominicans in North America: one in Canada, and four in the United States. In 1842 Margaret Hallahan founded

442-465: The Third Order, members were often called Tertiaries. Now, the most common term is "Lay Dominicans". The initial purpose behind the Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic was the preaching of penance; but under Dominican influences it leaned to the intellectual aspect of the faith and based its message on the exposition of the creed. This focus on penance remains a central part of the Dominican charism. "In complementarity with brothers, sisters and nuns they share

468-528: The United States, in 1995, the three congregations of Dominican sisters merged to form the Dominican Sisters of Hope . In 2009, the congregation of the Dominican Sisters of Peace was formed with the union of seven previously separate Dominican communities. This included the Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena, founded in Springfield, Kentucky in 1822; the first of the third order foundations of women of

494-398: The case of someone whose martyrdom is formally declared by the church. The feast day for a beatified person is not universal, but is celebrated only by territories, religious institutes, or communities in which the person receives particular veneration . For instance, Kateri Tekakwitha was especially honored in the United States and Canada during her time as Blessed. John Duns Scotus

520-515: The charism of St. Dominic through study, prayer, preaching and fraternal life." These are known as "The Four Pillars of the Order", and give shape to Lay Dominican spirituality. The Third Order as it exists today can be divided into two categories: regular, i.e. comprising Tertiaries who live in community according to a common rule; and secular, i.e. whether married or single, lay people, who live their lives like others of their profession, but who strive, as far as individual circumstances permit, to live

546-500: The community of fellow Dominicans and the religious practices of the order. Lay Dominicans are members of worldwide provinces, bound to the governance structure of the Order of Preachers. Dominic de Guzmán established the Ordo Praedicatorum in 1215. There are four principal branches: In the eleventh century there were secular associations, called Penitential Orders, connected with some Benedictine congregations, and later with

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572-570: The direction of a local Dominican priest. They were called the "Brothers and Sisters of Penance of the Blessed Dominic". Pope Honorius IV granted this new fraternity official church recognition in January 1286. A military order , called the Militia Jesu Christi , was founded in Languedoc around 1221. Also supervised by the Dominicans, they were merged with the "Brothers and Sisters of Penance of

598-515: The foundation stone of St. Dominic's convent was laid at Stone, Staffordshire , outside the Black Country : this became the motherhouse and novitiate , and to it the Longton community afterwards moved. At Stone a church and a hospital for incurables were built; this latter was one of Hallahan's schemes, and was begun on a small scale at Bristol. In 1857 she opened another convent at Stoke-on-Trent ,

624-454: The power of beatifying to the Holy See . Since the reforms of 1983, as a rule, one miracle must be confirmed to have taken place through the intercession of the person to be beatified. Miracles are almost always unexplainable medical healings, and are scientifically investigated by commissions comprising physicians and theologians. The requirement of a miracle for beatification is waived in

650-604: Was honored among the Franciscans , in the Archdiocese of Cologne and other places. Similarly, veneration of Chiara Badano is particular to the Focolare movement. The blessed, elected by popular acclamation (the vox populi) enjoyed only local veneration. While the procedure of canonization was taken in hand from the twelfth century by the papacy in Rome, that of beatification continued on

676-467: Was the only child of poor Irish Catholics. Due to the illness of her parents, when she was six years old she was sent to an orphanage, St Aloysius's Charity School in Somers Town , for three years and then at the age of nine went out to service, in which state of life she remained for nearly thirty years. In 1826 she accompanied the family with which she was living to Bruges ; there she tried her vocation as

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