By Humbert Clerissac, O.P. | Introduction by Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

The Spirit of Saint Dominic is the fruit of retreat conferences preached by Humbert Clerissac, O.P., to his Dominican brethren in England in the year 1908. Over the course of eighteen brilliant chapters, Clerissac presents the spirit of St. Dominic and the Order of Preachers which he founded, illuminating how that spirit is a living treasure for the Church today as it was at its genesis. 

As Thomas Joseph White, O.P. writes in his Introduction, “a great work of theology has a perennial relevance.” Such indeed is the case with this collection of retreats given by the great Dominican preacher Humbert Clerissac: perennially relevant, theologically beautiful.

To bring others to understand and love the luminous spirit of the Dominican Order, the eternal youth of its doctrinal tradition, its exquisite large-mindedness, its sublime idealism: would not one willingly die to make that known and loved? (Humbert Clerissac, O.P.)

Humbert Clerissac, O.P. (1864–1914) discerned his vocation at the age of sixteen after reading Lacordaire’s Life of Saint Dominic. During the thirty-four years of his Dominican life he showed a never-wavering ardor for the spirit of St. Dominic’s life and mission. He had tremendous influence as a preacher and a spiritual director, and he worked tirelessly for conversions, giving retreats to religious men and women of his own and other Orders. 

Paperback: 170pp.

ISBN: 978-1944418014