“What do you seek?”

Back in September, during a somewhat inauspicious visit to the Edith Stein Archive in Cologne, I recorded a podcast with my good friend br. Thomas Mannion, Dominican Friar and University Chaplain in Edinburgh. It was the second we had done and since then we have recorded a third. As with so many of our encounters, these occasions are filled with joy and some pretty deep conversations intermingled with laughter. During the second recording, I briefly mentioned a theory I had about how unity in the Dominican Family was palpable in some concrete things, like the fact that we all follow the same rite of profession, well sort of- for starters as a Lay Dominican you promise to live a life according to the charism of St Dominic rather than take vows. For this reason, this was one of the topics we both agreed needed further thinking and investigating, some things such as obedience and poverty were promises that Lay Dominicans, many of whom are married, would not live in the same way nor was it...