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April 9, 2006 (Press Release) --
A 1960'S TRADITIONAL DOMINICAN
Father Dominic De Domenico is a child of the 1960's and a traditional Dominican. He helped out at Our Lady of Peace in Santa Clara when Fr. John Sweeny was the pastor.
Q. How and why did you become a priest?
A. I was attending Fresno State College and involved with football, and track and field. I wasn't thinking about being a priest. A sister at grade school said I had a vocation, but I didn't think I wanted to do that. I went to Catholic high school and wasn't especially religious.
I went to Mass on Sundays and prayed, but when I went college I met those who didn't have the faith. So I started sharing my faith. After three years in college, I began to consider becoming a priest. I went to a principal at the high school around 1960. I was older -- 21 years old. So the principal said it would be better to try the religious order. I had a friend who was a baseball catcher at the college, and he introduced me to the Dominicans.
I loved St. Dominic's idea of preaching and devotion to the rosary and the scapular. The scapular was given to the Dominicans even before it was given to the Carmelites. My own devotion to the Blessed Virgin found great satisfaction in the Dominican Order. I also liked that it was both contemplative and active.
Q. What was your most difficult time in the priesthood?
A. I suppose in the very beginning it was difficult because it followed the Vatican II council -- after 1966. It was an extremely difficult time for the Church because of all the false understanding of what Vatican II said and a lack of clarity -- especially for the young priests. I learned the Latin Mass, then I had to learn the New Mass. It was difficult for many young priests. Many left the priesthood at the time.
Q. What was your happiest time as a priest?
A. My happiness in the priesthood is not relative to time. It is relative to the gift of the priesthood I received even though I'm not worthy of it. I look forward to my happiest time in the priesthood in eternity. I'll find the fullness of the priesthood in my happiness time, which is yet to come in glory with the People of God in Heaven.
Q. Since Dominicans have a special devotion to the rosary, can you tell why it is important today?
A. The rosary has gone through a development. It is important to remember the need of the mysteries on the life of Jesus and Mary. It was there before it was called the Psalter of Our Lady and before the Ave Maria. By its nature it is repetitive. The Ave Maria is the essence of the rosary. We combined the praying of the beads and meditating on the mysteries.
The rosary as we know it came about because of the need to battle the Gnostic heresy. The Gnostic heresy considered God to be evil because he was united to the world.
The mysteries of the rosary reflected on how the good God had become flesh. So the Dominicans preached the rosary so people could reflect on the goodness of God and of God's creatures.
The rosary is still important today because we in the United States don't respect human life. The founder of Planned Parenthood was into Gnosticism and the occult. So it is the longest heresy and it is very destructive in its worship of another god, which is basically Satan.
Father Dominic De Domenico is a child of the 1960's and a traditional Dominican. He helped out at Our Lady of Peace in Santa Clara when Fr. John Sweeny was the pastor.
Q. How and why did you become a priest?
A. I was attending Fresno State College and involved with football, and track and field. I wasn't thinking about being a priest. A sister at grade school said I had a vocation, but I didn't think I wanted to do that. I went to Catholic high school and wasn't especially religious.
I went to Mass on Sundays and prayed, but when I went college I met those who didn't have the faith. So I started sharing my faith. After three years in college, I began to consider becoming a priest. I went to a principal at the high school around 1960. I was older -- 21 years old. So the principal said it would be better to try the religious order. I had a friend who was a baseball catcher at the college, and he introduced me to the Dominicans.
I loved St. Dominic's idea of preaching and devotion to the rosary and the scapular. The scapular was given to the Dominicans even before it was given to the Carmelites. My own devotion to the Blessed Virgin found great satisfaction in the Dominican Order. I also liked that it was both contemplative and active.
Q. What was your most difficult time in the priesthood?
A. I suppose in the very beginning it was difficult because it followed the Vatican II council -- after 1966. It was an extremely difficult time for the Church because of all the false understanding of what Vatican II said and a lack of clarity -- especially for the young priests. I learned the Latin Mass, then I had to learn the New Mass. It was difficult for many young priests. Many left the priesthood at the time.
Q. What was your happiest time as a priest?
A. My happiness in the priesthood is not relative to time. It is relative to the gift of the priesthood I received even though I'm not worthy of it. I look forward to my happiest time in the priesthood in eternity. I'll find the fullness of the priesthood in my happiness time, which is yet to come in glory with the People of God in Heaven.
Q. Since Dominicans have a special devotion to the rosary, can you tell why it is important today?
A. The rosary has gone through a development. It is important to remember the need of the mysteries on the life of Jesus and Mary. It was there before it was called the Psalter of Our Lady and before the Ave Maria. By its nature it is repetitive. The Ave Maria is the essence of the rosary. We combined the praying of the beads and meditating on the mysteries.
The rosary as we know it came about because of the need to battle the Gnostic heresy. The Gnostic heresy considered God to be evil because he was united to the world.
The mysteries of the rosary reflected on how the good God had become flesh. So the Dominicans preached the rosary so people could reflect on the goodness of God and of God's creatures.
The rosary is still important today because we in the United States don't respect human life. The founder of Planned Parenthood was into Gnosticism and the occult. So it is the longest heresy and it is very destructive in its worship of another god, which is basically Satan.
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