BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS, FORD THEY WILL BE CALLES CHILDREN OF GOD.
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“Be thankful not for being a Pauline, but for the opportunity of becoming one.”
Fr. Ákos Bolyós OSPPE (1914–1994)
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“The veneration of the Holy Virgin belongs to the Pauline spirituality, this is why we wear white habit and carry the rosary with us. Our preachers are bound to spread and deepen the Marian devotion.”
Fr. Péter Máthé OSPPE (1926–2008)
B1/3 – ABOUT THE PAULINE HABIT
In the 13th century, hermits living far from the bustling world wore either the plain attire of the time, or they had to dress according to their clerical status. At the end of the 13th century, when the Paulines were organized into an order, they probably wore clerical clothing of dark colour. In 1341, Prior General Miklós II ordered them to change their dark vestment and wear a light-coloured one. In this way, they could differentiate themselves from those traditionally wearing dark colours, like the Benedictines or the wandering monks living an unregulated life. According to the Augustine rule and the ecclesiastical ordinance, the monastic habit had to strive for simplicity; the amount of clothes per order members could not exceed that determined by the constitution of the order (constitutiones).
The monks had to deal with an appointed brother regarding their clothing issues, and they could only accept clothes as gifts with the permission of the prior of the monastery. The instructions regarding the modesty and simplicity of the monastic habit can be found unchanged in modern ecclesiastical regulations as well. A fixed accessory of the Pauline habit is the rosary that stands for the unshakable veneration of the order towards Virgin Mary.
The monk is praying every day when putting on the habit as follows: “Lord, my allotted portion and my cup, you have made my destiny secure’’ (Ps 16:5).
When putting on the belt and the rosary: “Gird me, O Lord, with the cincture of purity, and quench in my heart the fire of concupiscence, that the virtue of continence and chastity may abide in me.”
When putting on the scapular: “Blessed Mother, I am all yours, and all that I have is yours.”
When putting on the hood: “Place upon me, O Lord, the helmet of salvation, that I may overcome the assaults of the devil.”
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A piece of the Pauline religious habit. Clandestine Paulines had been treasuring similar pieces hidden between 1950 and 1989.
(Property of László Arató)
B1/5 – SCENES OF EVERYDAY LIFE