Someone sent the following text message to this blog yesterday: 'At Heuston Station waiting to collect someone. One of your men is walking around in robes. Security are watching him.'
Last Monday, September 28 there was a photo on page five of The Irish Times of three Dominicans.
The caption read: 'Members of the clergy walk past Kehoe's pub on South Anne Street in Dublin City centre as patrons enjoy the fine weather outside.'
Until approximately the early 1990s it was custom and practice that Dominicans did not wear their habits in public.
Why the change now?
In the picture in The Irish Times the people sitting down seem to be looking/staring at the young men passing, dressed in their perfectly ironed and spotless white habits.
Why wear them? It might well appear habit wearing in public is some sort of showcase with the habits as a type of fashion accessory.
Who would want people gawking at them as they walk about the streets of the capital, or indeed, anywhere?
St Dominic and his community wore clothes that were in fitting with those worn by the poor people of the day, so as to blend in with them.
Wearing the Dominican habit in public today creates a completely opposite approach or desire than that intended by the founder of the Dominican Order.
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