FRATES ORDINIS PRÆDICATORUM CURIA GENERALITIA | Rome, the 20th June 2017 |
To the priors provincial, the prioresses of Dominican monasteries, the international officials of the Lay Fraternities, the Priestly Fraternities, the Dominican Secular Institutes and the Dominican Youth Movement, as well as the general superiors of the Apostolic Dominican Congregations
Letter of invitation to engage in the preparatory dynamic
of the Synod convened by Pope Francis on the theme
"young people, the faith and vocational discernment"
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Saint Dominic,
As you know, Pope Francis has convened a Synod of Bishops on the theme «Young people, the faith and vocational discernment». It is to meet in October 2018. With this letter, addressing myself to the respective superiors, I would like to invite the whole Order, brothers, nuns, laity, sisters and members of the Dominican family to take part in the process of preparation for this Synod, thus responding to the Pope’s invitation to all young people (16 to 29 years) to prepare this Synod with him.
This letter is part of the perspective opened up by the conclusions of the Congress that closed the Jubilee (Rome, 18-21 January 2017, cf. Letter of 25 March 2017, Prot 50/17/225 Letters_of_the_Order). The latter had in fact identified the theme of the worlds of young people as one of those which, in the dynamic of the renewal of the preaching mission of the Order, should be a priority and could be an opportunity to renew our preaching by strengthening collaboration within the Dominican Family.