Acts of the 7th European

Assembly of Lay Dominican

Fraternities

Annex IIj
 Irish Province
Lay Dominicans
Ireland in Relation to Europe
Ireland in Relation to Europe
 Ireland
Area
Total: 70,280 sq km

Land: 68,890 sq km
Water: 1,390 sq km

Capital City
Dublin

Official Languages
English and Irish
 Ireland
Religions
Roman Catholic 88.4%,
Church of Ireland 3%,
other Christian 1.6%,
other 1.5%,
unspecified 2%,
none 3.5%
(2002 census)
 First Dominicans in Ireland

Drogheda

Dublin
1221

HISTORY
 Early Record of
2 Lay Dominicans

• Story of
– Honoria Magaen (d 1653)
1653
– Honoria Burke (1549-1653)

HISTORY
 Lay Dominicans

• 36 Chapters/Fraternities

Facts and
Figures
 Lay Dominicans
600

500
Chapters
400
Registered
300
Active
200
Promises and
100 Admissions

0
2008
Facts and
Figures
 Lay Dominicans
600

500
Chapters
400
Registered
300
Active
200
Promises and
100 Admissions

0
2005 2008
Facts and
Figures
AGE Lay Dominicans
PROFILE
 Lay Dominicans

Annual
Local Chapter
Conference
Meeting

Regional
Meeting
Facts and
Figures
 Lay Dominicans and
Dominican Family

Dominican
Association
Ireland

Friars Sisters Nuns Laity

 Dominican Family
• Dominican Association

• Dominican Volunteers International –

Ireland
– Volunteers working in the Caribbean

• Justice and Peace

 Lay Dominican
Ministries
• Ministers of the Word

• Ministers of the
Eucharist
Ministries

• Working with
Refugees
(teaching English etc)

• Help those with Drug

Addiction
 Ministries

• Helping people with

Learning Disabilities

• Hospital and Nursing

Home Visitation
 Ministries

• Rosary Recitation

• Organising and
Hosting of Retreats
 Challenges we face

Falling
Numbers
Challenges of Secular
and Post-Christian World
 Looking Forward
The Challenge of
Implementing the
ACTS from
Argentina

The challenge of
Preaching the
Gospel in our
Secular World
Inspiration

Book
Growing in the
Spirit of St Dominic

fr Simon Roche OP
 Annual
Conference 2008
 800 Celebration
at Siena Monastery
DVI co-ordinator
On Pilgrimage
in Fanjeaux
Youth Group
We are alive
in God
for others
 Irish Province
Lay Dominicans