Dominican Youth Movement Grenada
Dominican Youth Movement Community Life
Dominican Youth Movement Grenada provides a different response to the needs of its communities. Organized by youth for youth, with the help of experienced members of the Dominican Family (Friars of the English Province - Grenada and Jamaica) Frair Ronald Holder OP, Friar Cliffton Harris OP (Spiritual Director and Formator). The four pillars of the Dominican Life: Prayer, Study, Community, and Preaching. Through prayer and Study, the DYM - Grenada searches to continue the formation of the individual Dominican and to adhere to the International Dominican Youth Movement Mission, Vision and Values. Though unique in this walk of faith, this branch of the Dominican Family seeks the same goal through the Dominican Vocation: To live for Jesus Christ, holding to the pillars of Dominican life, the message of St. Dominic which has found its home within this generation in Grenada, where we encounter speaking with God or about God.
 PrayerPrivate prayer is essential – so to is communal prayer. Being a member of the Dominican Family gives us the opportunity for a more unique intimate relationship with God through contemplation. To share group experiences of living the Gospel, through the Dominican Charism of Prayer, Study, Community and Ministry. Through weekly Mass, fellowship, events, preaching missions and monthly group meetings these actions becomes an act of prayer, each other talking to God or about God. |  StudyDominican study is a special gift of the Order. It is a gift for each of us as Dominicans who take on the responsibility and the joy of studying sacred truths. At the same time it is a gift to the Church, providing a means for these truths, contemplated through faithful and assiduous study, to be passed on to other youth people like our selves. For this reason study is both formative and fruitful for the Dominican soul. |  Community LifeCalled by Christ to make an offering of our lives, all vocations require the total gift of self for others. The Dominican Community life lived in secular groups within the Church and the human family have many expressions of God's love. Together with the people that God has placed in our lives and through ministry, we work out our holiness, for the Honour and glory of God, as we build up the Body of Christ. Thus this act becomes our preaching witness to other youths. |
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 PreachingPreaching is at the heart of the Dominican vocation. The Order of Preachers claims for all members of the Dominican Family the right to preach, and commits itself to the struggle this claim entails. The call of our day compel us to place the charism of preaching at the service of youth and others, the poor and powerless. The Dominican prophetic message of the Gospels is rooted in experience, study and prayer, which moves both preachers and hearers to act as witness of the Word of God. |
Saint Dominic de Guzman, O.P., Nine Ways of Prayer
The Nine Ways of Prayer of St. Dominic is a treasured Dominican document on St. Dominic’s manner of praying. It was written by an anonymous author, probably at Bologna, between 1260 and 1288. Sister Cecilia of the Monastery of St. Agnes at Bologna (who had received the habit from St. Dominic) and others who had known him personally were most likely the source of this information.
First of all, bowing humbly before the altar as if Christ, whom the altar signifies, were really and personally present and not just symbolically. As it says, ‘The prayer of the person who humbles himself will pierce the clouds’ (Ecclesiasticus 35:21). He taught the brethren to do this whenever they passed before a crucifix showing the humiliation of Christ, so that Christ, who was humbled for our sake, might particularly see us humbled before his greatness.
St. Dominic used to observe this way of prayer when he was going from one country to another, especially when he was in a lonely place. He disported himself with his meditations in his contemplation. And sometimes he would say to his traveling companions, ‘It is written in Hosea, “I will lead her to a lonely place and speak to her heart”’ (Hosea 2:14). So sometimes he went aside from his companion or went on ahead or, more likely, lingered far behind; going on his own he would pray as he walked, and a fire was kindled in his meditation (Psalms 38:4).
The Nine Ways of Prayer of St. Dominic is a treasured Dominican document on St. Dominic’s manner of praying. It was written by an anonymous author, probably at Bologna, between 1260 and 1288. Sister Cecilia of the Monastery of St. Agnes at Bologna (who had received the habit from St. Dominic) and others who had known him personally were most likely the source of this information.
We are a group of young Catholics following the footsteps of Jesus Christ in the way of St. Dominic de Guzman. Dominic Charism opened up in the Church a new path to sanctification emphasizing not much separation between the world and the individual search for perfection but rather the commitment to helping others along the path of salvation, thereby building up the Kingdom of God. We value hospitality, friendship, prayer, study, community life and preaching, especially to other young people.