More O.P.

When one seeks to define the character of Dominican spirituality, one is struck by its multiplicity of elements, yet also by a supreme simplicity that is hardly adaptable to the formulas of a definition. Its diverse constitutive principles do not seem easily reconcilable, and the means by which they fuse into a cohesive whole is neither immediately apparent nor easily grasped—except by those souls gradually formed and tempered within its discipline.