The Irish standard., 1916-12-30

OA Wi ANe1I
order, you cast in your lot with
that of the Catholic University,
and established at it's gates your
noble College of the Immaculate
Conception. Since then your
works have not ceased to grow in
numbers and Importance, and al
ready you are taxed to the utmost
to carry on your apostolic labors
in all parts of our country. Doubt
less, the brave and devoted men
who for long decades bore the
brunt of your missionary labors
among the scattered and lonely
Catholic families of Kentucky and
Ohio, and other regions, dreamed
not of later growth and develop
ment, but were content to SOW the
good seed and leave the rest to
Gods holy will. 1t is to them,
nevertheless, to their zeal and
piety, their sacrifices and great
charity, that is owing, under God,
the faith out of which have come
your churches and colleges and
schools and institutions of all
kinds, and to which we owe the
wonderful growth of Catholic
spirit and life exemplifed and
sustained in such great popular
religious associations as the Holy
Name Society. In an age of ire
ligion, blasphemy and obscenity
you have borne constantly the
banner Of the divine honor and
have commended from the Allan
tic to the Pacific our immemorial
Catholic respect and veneration
for the majesty of Almighty God,
and our joyous confession of His
supreme place and indefeasible
rights in the world created and
sustained by Him. You have
likewise borne aloft the immacu-
late banner OF the glorious Moth
er of God, whether in the primi-
tive forests OF your original broad
missions or in the heart of crowd
ed cities, wherever the white robe
Of St. Dominic appeared, there
came also a knight of Our Bless
ed Mother, a lineal descendant of
the Apostolic Dominic who en-
dowed Our Christian life with the
most affectionate and powerful of
all the devotions which bind us
to the Mother of God"
The other is from the tribute
Of the Rev. Paschal Robinson, O.
F. NJ, professor of medieval his
tory at the Catholic University,
and as follows:
'In founding the Order of
Preachers, then, Dominic adopted
as its special object the salvation
of souls principally through the
ministry Of preaching. Orda Prae-
dicatorum - Preaching Friars.
Such was the name given to the
new order of Innocent III and
this has remained its official des-
ignation ever since. 1t is not
only an order of preachers there
fore; it is also an order of friars,
and as such it differs widely from
the earlier religious orders of the
monastic type. Now the differ
ence between a monk and a friar
is very elementary distinction in
medieval history, and no one who
has failed to grasp it can really
understand the ideal of St. Domi-
mic. Some people talk of monks
and friars as if they were con-
vertible terms. The truth is that
the difference between a monk
and friar is almost one of kind.
The monk, as the word suggests,
lives retired life apart from the
world, very much alone and given
up to study, prayer, and Divine
worship-in a word, the monks
is a contemplative life. Of course
there is vast difference between
the monk who cleared the
swamps in the sixth century, the
missionary apostle of the ninth
century, the feudal and ecclesias-
tical dignitary of the twelfth CEN
tury, and the learned historian of
the seventeenth century. But
amidst all these epocl1s the monk
remains essentially the contem-
plative, the man whose one imme-
date object is his own personal