Thursday, 23 June 2011
Dominican vocations video
This video showing something of the life and work of the Dominicans was produced by Fra Lawrence Lew OP. It is partly intended to promote vocations but also gives a good summary of the Dominican life. Materials such as these help us all: we do not have to be envious of the vocations of others. As a secular priest, I am heartened by the growing life of the English Province of the Dominicans since it contributes much to the life of the Church in our country.
For more information about the English Province of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), see: english.op.org
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0:55 "what we preach in the end is the kingdom of God, which is that all of humanity will be gathered together in Christ."
Do you have to believe that everyone is saved to be a Dominican?
I think this statement, clipped from of a much longer interview, needs to be interpreted narrowly so that is faithful to Scripture and Tradition, and in a manner that is definitely not universalist.
It actually reads: "What we preach, in the end, is the kingdom..." because this was the last sentence, and a summation, or a longer part of the interview. Thus, "in the end" is not a reference to the eschaton.
So, I take it to mean that what we preach is Jesus Christ, who said that when he is lifted up will draw all men to himself. We preach that Christ is Saviour of all men. And that all men are called into the 'Katholikos', i.e., into the unity of the Church, and indeed, of the kingdom. Christ is the kingdom of God in person (as Pope Benedict said in his book, Jesus of Nazareth, part 1). So we preach unity in Christ for all men, and it is he who will gather us to himself. That is the Father's will and plan for mankind.
But of course, because of sin and man's free choice, not all may respond to this divine desire. I think we must take that as understood, and so, interpret the foregoing in a non-universalist way. That, at least, would be the most charitable reading.
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