The Lay Dominicans of the Queen of the Holy Rosary Group will be posting meditations for the fifteen Tuesdays leading up to the feast of our Father Dominic on August 8th.   See here for more information on the 15 Tuesdays devotion.

Our Lord, the light of the world, did not allow his disciples to use the title Messiah. Trying to understand what the teacher was explaining to the people, the apostles asked for the meaning of his many parables. They also asked him when he would restore Israel. He told them it is not for man to know, but God. In God’s time, Israel would be restored and Jesus would come again.

Dominic, trying to establish the Order of Preachers, knew that all good things would come, but in God’s time and with prayer. While he and his fellow students waited on proper recognition of the Order, they spent their time studying Scripture and learning in the universities.

We too must have patience for those things we ask of God. We do not know his ways or his time. We must be servants in prayer, ask in Christ’s name, and go on with our lives as we wait. We cannot always know when he has answered our prayers, but must trust in Christ, continue to pray, and wait patiently for the answer.

Ultimately, Dominic’s patience was rewarded with the establishment of an order of preaching friars. He would go forth spreading the light of the Lord as was foretold to his mother. Only with patient studying and prayer can we too be creative and show God’s light to the world. Then our prayers will be answered.