August 8: Solemnity of our Holy Father Dominic Holy Father, good Father, our model and our glory! I admire and venerate you as a friend of God. You served Him in truth and charity. Truth was always on your lips, charity always in your heart. You showed your love of truth by saying to your companions: “May truth be above all things dear to you.” You showed your esteem for charity by reciting every day a special prayer to obtain from God true charity. To defend the truth you have maintained in your Order a legion of doctors. To practice charity, even to heroism, you have raised up an army of martyrs. From the height of heaven continue your work, O Father, showing yourself a Moses in meekness, a David in valor, a Solomon in wisdom, an Elias in burning zeal, a Jeremias in lamentations and sufferings. Yes, grant that your sons may ever pour out floods of light upon the Church, and that, if need be, after having exhausted their years and their strength in preaching to all, they may, in the ...