As we keep this seventh Tuesday in honor of our Holy Father St. Dominic, let us consider the suffering of Jesus in the Scourging of the Pillar, and following the example of St. Dominic, offer our sufferings in union with Christ in reparation for sin.
As we keep this sixth Tuesday in honor of our Holy Father St. Dominic, let us ask him to obtain for us the zeal for the salvation of souls that burned in his own heart.
As we keep this fifth Tuesday in honor of our Holy Father St. Dominic, let us ask him to help us always put divine worship first in our lives, so that like the Child Jesus in the Temple, we may tend toward the Father.
As we keep this fourth Tuesday in honor of our Holy Father St. Dominic, let us ponder the obedience of Christ in the Presentation. Like Our Lady and the Child Jesus, we too must strive to do always and everywhere the will of God, and thus, like St. Dominic, we may become instruments of peace and joy to all around us.
As we keep this third Tuesday in honor of our Holy Father St. Dominic, let us ask Our Lady for a share in her own interior life of loving contemplation and radiant joy at the Nativity of Christ, which we see reflected in St. Dominic.
As we keep this second Tuesday in honor of our Holy Father St. Dominic, let us ask him to increase our charity and patience in community life, that, like Our Lady in her generous charity toward Sts. Zachariah and Elizabeth, we may bring Christ to each other.
As we keep this first Tuesday in honor of our Holy Father St. Dominic, let us ask him to help us correspond to God’s will in the circumstances of our lives with greater fidelity, so that we can be more attentive to the interior inspiration of the Holy Spirit within, and entrust the results of all our efforts with greater confidence to God.
We invite you to join us in the traditional Dominican devotion of the 15 Tuesdays leading up to the feast of St. Dominic. Why? How? What? When? Learn more in this post.
This prayer was composed by Bl. Jordan of Saxony, who succeeded him as Master of the Order of Preachers. When we pray it repeatedly, it effects in us a loving friendship with our Holy Father.
In this year of Our Lord 2021, we expect abundant graces as we celebrate three special “years”: the Year of St. Joseph in the universal Church, the Year of the Eucharist and the Parish here in our Archdiocese of Mobile, and the 800th Jubilee Year of the Death of our Holy Father St. Dominic in the Order of Preachers.