Simple Profession Pictures
August 26th, 2009 by Br. Peter Martyr Joseph Yungwirth, O.P.
The Mass of Simple Profession for the Province of St. Joseph was a beautiful celebration again this year as the Province welcomed its new brothers to the vowed life. Moreover, that evening at Second Vespers of the Assumption, the newly professed were read their assignments. Being given the first assignment on this day is a wonderful thing for a Dominican friar as on August 15, 1217, St. Dominic dispersed the first brothers. Blessed Jordan recounts this event as such:
“After invoking the Holy Spirit, [Dominic] assembled the brethren and announced that, in spite of their small number, his heart’s desire was to send them throughout the whole world and that they would no longer live together in their present abode. Although they were all surprised at the announcement of this unexpected plan, yet, because his evident authority of holiness animated them, they easily agreed to it in the hope that it would result in a good purpose. For he knew that grain bears fruit if sown, but, if stored, it rots.” (Libellus, 47-48).
To see some of the photos from the liturgy and for the Mandamus read at Vespers, click on the image above.
