Laity

In order to join the Order of Preachers in whose apostolic mission we participate fully, we, the Laity of St. Dominic, make a promise according to the formula provided by the Rule. Incorporation into the lay branch of the Order, called the Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic, subject to the Master and the other Major Superiors of the Order, takes place only with this promise (Cf. General Declarations, 2019, 1 § II).

Guided by our Dominican family, we are organized through fraternities in the provinces, vice-provinces and vicariates.

• Rule and General Declarations

• • Rules – Translations

At the international level there is the Council of Lay Dominican Fraternities (ICLDF), in which we are represented by each of the five regions: Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia-Pacific, Europe and the United States-Canada.
The International Council and the Regional Councils have the mission to promote greater communication between Lay Dominican Fraternities in order to achieve a more effective preaching of the Gospel in accordance with the signs of the times.

• ICLDF Members

• Statutes of the ICLDF (En/Es/Fr)

• Acts of the III International Congress of Lay Fraternities (Fatima, 2018)

• Regional Councils:
  
  • AFRICA: Council of African Lay Dominican Fraternities (ACLDF)
• Members
  Statutes
  • ASIA-PACIFIC: Council of Lay Dominican Fraternities of Asia Pacific (APCLDF)
• Members
  Statutes
  • LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN: Council of Lay Dominican Fraternities of Latin America and the Caribbean (COFALC)
• Members
  Statutes
  Website
  • USA & CANADA: Interprovincial Council of the Lay Fraternities of the United States and Canada (DLIPC)
• Members
  Statutes
  Website
  • EUROPE: Council of European Lay Dominican Fraternities (ECLDF)
• Members
  Statutes
  Website
• Visit: https://icldf.org/

Somos jóvenes atraidos por la vocación dominicana, dispuestos a anunciar el Evangelio desde la espiritualidad y el carisma de la Orden de Predicadores; motivados por la oración, el estudio y la vida fraterna en la misión común y permanente de la predicacion, como laicos que llevamos el Espiritu de Cristo a las diferentes realidades y contextos. (Cfr. Estatutos IDYM-MJD 2017, 1.1)

At the international level there is the Dominican Youth Movement Council (IDYM-MJDI), in which we are represented by each of the five regions: Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia-Pacific, Europe and United States-Canada. The International Council has the mission of promoting and strengthening communion and participation among the Youth Movements, in order to achieve a more effective preaching of the Gospel in accordance with the signs of the times. In each country there are national coordinators who, together with their councils, group together the different provinces, vice-provinces and vicariates, whose main objective is to live in communion and participation with the Dominican Family in different ways, in dialogue and sharing permanently with the culture of each country or region, with the desire to dedicate ourselves to preaching through the spirituality and charism of the Order of Preachers. (Cfr. Statutes IDYM-MJD 2017,Preamble)

• Members
  

• Statutes of IDYM