FRIENDSHIP AMONG DOMINICAN SAINTS

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FRIENDSHIP AMONG DOMINICAN SAINTS
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What is friendship?
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Friendship two lives joined in love and lived
as one.each friend is fully open to the Lord
and open to other friends it always lead to a
cluster of many friendship.
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CHARACTERISTICS OF FRIENDSHIP
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THE MINISTRY OF FRIENDSHIP
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Blessed Cecilia was a young woman, not yet
twenty, when she received her Dominican habit
from St. Dominic at Rome and witnessed the
foundation of the monastery of San Sisto. In 1223
she went with three other sisters to the new
monastery of St. Agnes in Bologna to help train
Blessed Diana and her community in the Dominican
life. She remained a member of the Bolognese
monastery until her death. Among the treasures
Cecilia brought from Rome were her recollections
of the Holy Founder
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Cecilia was not a trained historian, but a
beloved daughter looking back over fifty years to
the time of her youth when she personally knew a
beloved Father who was now canonized, his
sanctity tried and proved. She permits us to see
clearly the loving concern St. Dominic had for
the temporal and spiritual welfare of his
daughters. Was it not like a father, coming home
from Spain, to bring spoons as a gift for each of
the sisters"? She shows his zeal for souls.
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Through her eyes we watch him preaching to the
people, visiting and ministering to the recluses
who lived near the walls of Rome. He instructs
them, consoles them, heals their diseases, brings
them Communion. Cecilia is painting the picture
of a soul. It was a great soul, a saintly soul.
Can we blame her if, in her enthusiasm, she
embellishes when she sings his praises, when she
tells us of his warm, kindly, tender, human
heart?
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 Blessed Jordan of Saxony entered the Dominican
order in 1220 and became St Dominic's successor
as Master of the order in 1222. He worked and
travelled tirelessly in that task till his death
by shipwreck in 1237. Blessed Diana d'Andalò was
a close friend of St Dominic and made her
religious profession in his hands in 1219. Four
years later (two years after his death) she
established the Dominican convent for
contemplative nuns in Bologna, under the auspices
of Jordan, with whom she developed a warm
friendship. His letters to her are among the most
personal documents to survive from the order's
early years, and a testament to warm and deep
friendship among the saints.
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 Paris 1229    Dear Diana,                      
    I cannot find the time to write you the long
letter your love would wish for and I would so
gladly send. Nonetheless I do write, I send you a
very little word, the Word made little in the
crib, the Word who was made flesh for us, the
Word of salvation and grace, of sweetness and
glory, the Word who is good and gentle, Jesus
Christ and him crucified, Christ raised up on the
cross, raised in praise to the Father's right
hand to whom and in whom do you raise up your
soul and find there your rest unending for ever
and ever.     Read over that Word in your heart,
turn it over in your mind, let it be sweet as
honey on your lips ponder it, dwell on it, that
it may dwell with you and in you for ever.    
There is another word that I send you, small and
brief my love, which will speak for me to your
love in your heart and will content it. May this
word too be yours, and likewise dwell with you
for ever.     Farewell, and pray for me,    
Jordan   
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-the tenderness and humanity of these letters
reveals that the austerity of Dominican life and
the urgency of its mission did not stifle
affective life, even if it tempered it.
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-United as one in love, they succeeded in loving
a multitude of their fellow men and working
together effectively for their salvation.-
Jordan is much older than Diana and treats her as
his spiritual daughter, but he also puts great
trust in her, relying on her understanding and
encouragement especially in his deep grief over
the loose of his friend Henry.
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-are drawn together in special faith and love by
a charismatic grace their love for each other is
a remarkable embodiment of the covenant in
Christs Blood. -warmth of affection is an
integral element of their special bond in divine
love.
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-truly knit together in love (Col.22)-the
depth of Catherines affection for Raymond was
manifested in her copious tears when she said
good bye to him at St. Pauls church outside the
walls as he set out on a journey.
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Elements of a healthy friendship between St.
Catherine of Siena and Bl. Raymond of Capua
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You doubted me thinking that my affectionate
love for you was diminishedin reality my love
for you is increasedI shall not stop working for
you whenever your faults are shown to you,
rejoice, and thank the Divine Goodness which has
assigned someone to labor over you, who watches
for you in his sight.
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My very dear father, I beg of you to pray
insistently that you and I together will bathe
ourselves in the Blood of the humble Lamb, which
will make us strong and faithful.I keep
myself in peace, because I am certain that
nothing happens without the mysterious design of
God.
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We can understand why Thomas Aquinas was so taken
with his older confrere's desire to explore, his
willingness to dialogue, and to take bold stands.
Such shared values -- integrated and held in
balance by a clarity of faith and consuming love
of neighbor -- put them both on the cutting edge
of theological development and made them
"risk-takers" in their service of Church and
society.
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A few years ago the late Father James A.
Weisheipl, O.P., explored Thomas's relationship
to his friend and teacher. While Thomas derived
much from his master, as his writings show, the
reverse is not true. Albert, it seems, did not
keep up with his student's work until after
Thomas death, when he took it upon himself to
defend what had been their common stand against
traditionalist critics. By then well advanced in
age, Albert had Thomas' works read to him, so the
story goes. Thus it is only in Albert's later
works, written mostly after Thomas' death, and
the scripture commentaries in particular, that
Thomas' influence is apparent.
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Antoninus applied for admission to the Dominican
Order at age 15, and was accepted a year later.
With Fray Angelico and Fray Bartolommeo, the one
to become famous as a painter, the other as a
miniaturist, they were sent to Cortona to make
their novitiate under Blessed Lawrence of
Ripafratta.
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In 1445, when Pope Eugene IV was seeking an
Archbishop for Florence, Fray Angelico, who was a
friend of the Pope, suggested St. Antoninus. The
Pope named him Archbishop of Florence and he
entered the city in great pomp, as was the
custom.
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There were at the time four convents of the Friar
Preachers in Lima the College of St. Thomas the
house of St. Rose, where Sister Rose of St. Mary
had died just five years before Santo Domingo or
Holy Rosary, where the holy lay brother, Martin
de Porres, was performing such astounding
miracles and the convent of St. Mary Magdalen,
which was small and poor. John decided to enter
St. Mary Magdalen and, in 1622, he received the
habit of a lay brother there.
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CONCLUSIONTrue friendship is an authentic love
and it includes reverence for the other not
simply as persons, one capable of loving
relationship, but as person God wants him to be.