Dominican Priory of St. Martin de Porres

 

COMMUNITY VISION STATEMENT

 

As a community of the Southern Dominican Province we embrace the “Holy Preaching” as an apostolic way of shared life, essential to our ministry to preach the Word.

 

With the “Holy Preaching” for our time and place as our guiding vision, we commit ourselves to be a community of friars, recognizing our diversity, fully committed to the pillars of the Dominican Order: prayer, study, community and ministry.  Therefore we also commit ourselves:

 

[] to place contemplation at the center of our shared life.

 

[] to the regular practice of faith sharing and scripture sharing.

 

[] to a simple lifestyle with sharing of goods and solidarity with the economically poor and the socially marginalized, particularly our mission to Kenya.

 

[] to ongoing personal and communal study, including regular reflection on  major contemporary issues in the light of the Gospel.

 

[] to hospitality.

 

[] to ongoing evaluation of community and ministry.

 

[] to promote vocations to the priesthood and religious life and to collaborate with the Province’s programs of initial and ongoing formation.

 

[] to a model of leadership that is participative, responsible and accountable.

 

[] to foster and support a chapter of the Dominican Laity.

 

[] to leisure and recreation as a necessary part of our life.

 

[] to collaboration and interfaith ministry with clergy, religious, laity and all people of good will.

 

[] to affirm and encourage the priesthood of all the baptized.

 

In the light of our Vision Statement we reaffirm as our “COMMUNITY PROJECT”: