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Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic
A brief (2 min) audio excerpt from an interview with Dr. Jem Sullivan about the Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic and the call to holiness. The interview aired on the satellite radio program "Word to Life" on the Catholic Channel, Sirius 159, on January 26, 2007. Professor Sullivan teaches at the Dominican House of Studies.
Members of the Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic live a Christian life with a Dominican spirituality in the secular world. They find their inspiration following the same spiritual path taken by many saints, blesseds, and other holy men and women throughout the almost 800 year history of the Dominican Order. This vocation allows lay and clergy alike to grow in holiness through a life of prayer, community, study, and the apostolate.
The Dominican Lay Faternities are part of the Dominican Order because in receiving a person into the Novitiate the Dominican Order makes them a member of the Order. From the beginning of the Order of Preachers, there have always be lay people who associated themselves with the Friars. Some were called to a great involvement in the living out of Dominican spirituality and these were received into our Third Order, whose Rule was at first tacitly and then officially approved by the Master of the Order.
The Lay Fraternity member makes a Profession to the Master of the Order himself at the end of his or her first year. This Profession is one of a promise to live according to the Rule of the Lay Fraternities of Saint Dominic. There are several local chapters that are closely associated with the Dominican House of Studies in Washington DC and which hold their meetings here.
Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic Website: www.3op.org
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