The Dominican family in Dunedin joined our five Dunedin and Milton Dominican charism schools to celebrate St Dominic’ Day on Thursday  the 3rd of  August at Holy Name Church.  We had a wonderful celebration led by Fr Aidan Cunningham  IC thanks to the participation of students from all the schools and to the Kavanagh College band who did a fabulous job of providing the music and leading us in singing. The Cook Island drumming and dancing during the preparation of the gifts was a real highlight.  Isobel McKewen and Olivia Oram inspired us with their preaching as part of the shared homily. Isobel and Olivia are year 7 pupils at Kavanagh College.  This is what they had to say: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.” But what does righteousness mean?  We might think of words like honesty, goodness, justice, honour and of course Truth. Dominic lived the Beatitudes and he was dedicated to the truth.  The Latin word for truth is Veritas.  Dominic founded an Order that faithfully lives its motto of Veritas. He realised that the truth was not merely something that we know, but that it needed to be our way of living.  He was aware that many people had not properly heard God’s saving truth, and he wanted to share this truth with as many people as possible. Dominic knew that the only real path through life would be through the light of truth, the Word of God. He
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