I came to you, brothers, to proclaim the mystery of God, not by philosophical argument but by the power of the Spirit. A follower of Jesus is a proclaimer of the mystery of God. Assisted by the Holy Spirit, a proclaimer of the mystery of God ensures that the content of his/her proclamation is not from any other source but God alone. St. Dominic whose memory the Church honors today certainly understood this very well. Growing up in a medieval society that was infested with a wave of different interpretations of the Gospel that sought to distort the teachings of Jesus, St. Dominic, though learned, resisted the temptation to deviate from the interpretation that was officially approved by the Church. Rather than join the heretical movements that were gaining popularity and becoming more appealing to literate individuals like himself, St. Dominic chose to fight them as he refuted their teachings. He dedicated his life in fiercely fighting the Albigensian heresy (dualism), a cause for which he founded a congregation, the Order of Preachers.
Albigensian heresy taught a separation of the spiritual from the material, insisting that only the spiritual is good. As a teaching, it vilified the doctrine of the Incarnation because God, who is both good and spiritual, could not assume matter (since matter is evil). Consequently, the human aspects of Jesus such as poverty that was forming the basis of popular spiritual movements and devotions in the medieval Church were dismissed by the Albigensians. The Albigensian heresy taught that poverty, itself being ‘evil’ by definition, could not have been embraced by Jesus. Their teaching was in stark contradiction to that of the Church which maintained that Jesus and the apostles, including the Blessed Mary, led a life of poverty. Dominic vehemently disagreed with them, even going as far as embracing a life of poverty himself. Dominic and his contemporaries like St. Francis of Assisi who followed in the footsteps of Jesus in embracing a life of poverty did so in defense of poverty as a noble lifestyle. It was a mystery that was hidden to the Albigensians. 
In today’s first reading, we hear St. Paul appealing to the Christian community in Corinth to let themselves be ‘schooled’ in the wisdom of the Gospel message. The problems that the members of this community were facing resulted from their failure to let the Gospel message speak to them. For although the values that the Gospel message proposes (humility, forgiveness, meekness, and letting go of feelings of entitlement) were associated with weakness and as such were looked down upon in their society, they were, as a matter of fact, the answers to the problems of their day. As men and women who had been baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, they had to stop relying solely on their human wisdom. They had to allow the wisdom from on high be their guide. This is what St. Dominic did when he resisted the temptation to join the heretical movements that were challenging the teachings of the Church. He chose to remain foolish in human standards so that he could understand the mystery of God. May we who are honoring his memory today be filled with the grace that will allow us to espouse the values of the Gospel just as he did.