Fullness of Truth Conference:@ St. Francis in Grapevine, TX

The Fullness of Truth is a lay apostolate which puts on conferences throughout the United States. A few months after my return to the Church, Stacey and I attended a FOT conference in Arlington, TX. We got to hear Tim Staples, Doug Berry, Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio and Father Corapi. Scott Hahn has also recently spoken at another local FOT conference.

This February conference will take place in the Ft. Worth Diocese and will have Mike Aquilina (who recently co-authored Dion the Wanderer Talks Truth), Marshall Taylor (who shared a guest post with Joe Catholic) and Father Bill Casey who often appears on EWTN. The emcee will be Matthew Warner who writes for the National Catholic Register. I regularly share his humorous blog posts on Twitter.

Joe Catholics interested in attending can go to the FOT website for more information.

Saint Talk: St. Dominic

Today we celebrated the feast of St. Dominic who founded the Order of Preachers best known as the Dominicans.  He founded the order in in the early 1200's and it was approved in 1216. The order's charism is that of preaching and to this day often make parish missions. St. Dominic, along with Bishop Diego de Acevedo, encounter and preached against the heresy of Albigensian. This heresy held that all things material were evil and denied the incarnation.

In addition to being a contemporary of St. Francis, St. Dominic introduced the Rosary as a form of prayer after he received a vision from Our Blessed Mother. She gave him instructions how to pray it. This account was affirmed by Pope Leo XIII and later Pope Pius XI

Additional Reading:

Insight Scoop: St. Dominic and the Friars Preachers

EWTN: St. Dominic Founder of Friars Preachers

Catholic Pages: St. Dominic and the Rosary

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