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Dominican
Family
Message to the Members of the Dominican Family
from Fanjeaux, May 2006
 We, members of the international commissions of the Dominican Order,
meeting with the Master of the Order in Fanjeaux to celebrate the
800th anniversary of St Dominic’s founding of Prouilhe, wish
to share with the worldwide Dominican family our reflections, ideas
and commitments to enrich the holy preaching at this momentous time
in the Order’s history.
- We commit ourselves to renewing Dominic’s vision of a family
together in mission.
- We commit ourselves to knowing all branches of the family better
and to working better and to working together in harmony, mutual
respect and truth.
- We commit ourselves to finding spaces to preach together as Dominic’s
family.
- We commit ourselves to finding new, innovative ways of preaching
that will especially touch the poor, the young and the aged.
- We commit ourselves to finding ways to link and nourish our prayer
and mission.
- We commit ourselves to be more welcoming to all the other branches
of the Order.
- We commit ourselves to be more attentive, listening to the world
as a fundamental Dominican value.
- We commit ourselves to working for justice together as a family.
- We commit ourselves to being in solidarity with those at the
margins of society.
From these general commitments, kindled by the fire of Dominic’s
vision by being present in these holy places, we urge all branches
of the Dominican family in this period of jubilee to:
- Be involved in mission by adopting local projects
developed and implemented by all branches of the Order together;
- Deepen our prayer life by praying the jubilee prayer prepared
for us by the nuns of the Order and joining their liturgies in
their monasteries wherever possible;
- Work
for justice by joining the rest of the Church in realizing THE
MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS signed by all governments
in 2000 to relieve our world of dehumanizing poverty and to promote
integral human development.
 These are some of the first fruits of our contemplation over these
days in Fanjeaux where Dominic first had his vision of establishing
what became the first foundation of the Order and where he dreamed
of how to set the world on evangelical fire by praising, blessing and
preaching. We encourage you all to take up these challenges, to give
them flesh and to implement them, following in the footsteps of St
Dominic, as ways of witnessing to the Gospel in our time.
OP Family Matters
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