Lay Dominican Formation

Dominicans study so that we are better able to preach the gospel. For Lay Dominicans, this is part of our ongoing formation as lay evangelists.

St. Thomas Aquinas

For our ongoing formation for 2023-2024, we are studying St. Thomas Aquinas to commemorate the following anniversaries:
18th July 2023 - 700th anniversary of the canonization of St Thomas
7th March 2024 - 750th anniversary of the death of St. Thomas
2025 - 800th anniversary of the birth of St. Thomas

Date	Presenter	Title	Presentation Slides	Recording
2023 November 18th	Rosa	Overview of St. Thomas	PDF	-
2024 January 20th	Conchita	Introduction to Summa Theologica	PDF	Audio recording (starts at slide 10 "Syllogism is a classical form...")
2024 April 20th	Cathy	St. Thomas' Sermons	-	-
2024 May 18th	Mark	St. Thomas' hymns for Corpus Christi	PDF	-
2025 January 18th	Christina	Christology in St. Thomas Aquinas: Christ the new David	Presentation Handout	Audio recording (finishes at slide 9 "NEW DAVID CHRISTOLOGY IN LUKE")
2025 March 15th	Fr. Gilles	Lenten Retreat	Presentation	-
2025 May 17th	Cathy	St. Ignatius of Antioch	Presentation and Letter to the Philadelphians for study beginning page 107	Audio recording

Reference material

Summa Theologia (tr. by English Dominican Province)
Sacred Texts website
New Advent website

Summa consists of three parts and supplements (not by St. Thomas):
prima pars (I),
prima secundae partis (II-1),
secunda secundae partis (II-2),
tertia pars (III),
supplementum tertiae partis.
Each part is subdivided into questions of the titles and then articles. That is how St. Thomas structured Summa to teach the students. If you wish to make a reference to Summa, please indicate which question from which part and then the number of the article, which would be helpful for the audience (or readers).

The Church Fathers

For our ongoing formation for 2025, we are studying the Church Fathers.

Date	Presenter	Title	Presentation Slides	Recording
2025 February 15th	Fr. Gabriel	Overview of the Church Fathers	-	Audio