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<\/a><\/div>\n1. The Dominican way of life, the mixed life, is, St Thomas says, the way of life most similar to the life of Jesus and the Apostles.<\/p>\n
2. The role of the Dominican Order is to save the Church in times of crisis and heresy. Such an Order is never more needed than now.<\/p>\n
3. Being a Dominican Teaching Nun is putting a fence at the top of the cliff down which so many of our children fall. That is far better than picking people up at the bottom.<\/p>\n
4. The religious life has always been the saving of the Church. Look at the Benedictines saving Europe by being pepper-potted among the ruins of the Empire. Now it\u2019s our turn to be distributed through a crumbling civilization.<\/p>\n
5. To save my own soul. As a Pope said, \u201cShow me a Friar Preacher who has kept his rule perfectly and I will canonize him straight away\u201d.<\/p>\n
6. To save the souls of others by teaching a praying.<\/p>\n
7. To extend the reign of Christ.
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