7th European Assembly is coming soon! We are looking forward to seeing the delegates from every province and vicariate there. Meeting, sharing, discussing, preaching and praying together during 5 days in Slovakia. The Assembly is supported by Renovabis and by the Slovak Dominican Province Invitation letter No1 Invitation letter No2 Registration form Photos about the venue http://teplice.sk/

NEW: Report about the last ECLDF meeting held in Dublin, 2008

NEW: The letter from the Master of the Order on the Rosary, in three languages: ENG, FRA, ESP

Link to the International Lay Dominican Congress website

Report about the ECLDF meeting held in Walberberg, April, 2007

Report about the ECLDF meeting held in Bratislava, October, 2006

ECLDF Treasurer's letter, February 2006

Report about the ECLDF meeting held in Rome, 2005

New member of the Family: the fraternity in Sofia, February 2006

Report about the ECLDF meeting held in Sopron, 2005

Why is it worthwhile and important to lead a Lay Dominican life?

Lay Dominicans in Europe

A meeting of representatives of the Lay Dominican Fraternities from the Provinces of Europe with their Promoters and guests has been held every three years since 1989. The first of these meetings was the Assembly held in Toulouse, France, followed by Budapest , Hungary in 1992, Kanie, Poland in 1995, the fourth in Vienna, Austria in 1998, the fifth in Fognano, Italy in 2001 and the sixth in Walberberg, Germany in 2004. These Assemblies were organized by volunteers in collaboration with the Brethren until after the Vienna meeting.

The object of these Assemblies is to encourage Lay Dominicans to carry out their vocation as a significant part of the Order of Preachers.
At the Vienna Assembly it was decided that there should be a European Council for Lay Dominican Fraternities and a Council was democratically elected. One of the tasks of this Council was to prepare the Statutes which were  presented and promulgated at the meeting in Fognano.
In accordance with these Statutes, a new Council was elected from the participants before the close of  the Walberberg Assembly. One of their duties is the organization of the next Assembly that will take place in Bratislava, Slovakia in 2008.

Patricia Robinson (UK) represents Europe on the Internationl Council till August 2006, when her mandate will be over. Patricia Kelly (Ireland) will be on the International Council from then. She was elected during the Walberberg Assembly.

The new European Council - elected during the Walberberg Assembly - consists of the following five members. They distributed duties among themselves.

Gabriel Silva (Portugal) - 2gabrielsilva@gmail.com - President

Eva Kameniarova (Slovakia) - evakameniarova@stonline.sk - Secretary

Tomáš Machula (Czech) - machula@tf.jcu.cz - Formation

Chantal Solingy (France) - soligny8@aol.com

Nikolett Muranyi (Hungary) - nikolett.muranyi@vnet.hu - Treasurer & Internet

Patricia Robinson (UK) - PRobin1002@aol.com co-opted member: represents Europe on the Internationl Council till the end of the International Assembly

Patricia Kelly (Ireland) - pky1@eircom.net - co-opted member: represents Europe on the Internationl Council from the end of the International Assembly

Fr. David Kammler OP - Laici@curia.op.org - Promoter General for the Dominican Laity - supports our work.