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165

  1. All the brothers, especially those whose ministry is among adolescents and young men, should consider it a duty of their Dominican vocation to work actively and prudently in fostering vocations to the Order.
  2. Each province shall name a promoter of vocations, which if it is possible, would be his primary task.
  3. II. Everyone should remember, however, that the life and apostolate of each brother and of each community will be the first invitation to take up Dominican life.
Ordination
In fieri:
No
Valere coepit:
Primo promulgata:

165

  1. All the brothers, especially those whose ministry is among adolescents and young men, should consider it a duty of their Dominican vocation to work actively and prudently in fostering vocations to the Order.
  2. Everyone should remember, however, that the life and apostolate of each brother and of each community will be the first invitation to take up Dominican life.
Ordination
In fieri:
No
Substitutum:
Valere coepit:
Primo promulgata:

115

Those brothers should be assigned to missionary work who had previously shown signs of a missionary vocation and who are well prepared for it. Special training for missionaries, both clerical and co-operator brothers, ought to be provided in a mission convent, or in a special institute where they can learn the people’s language, customs, history, culture and missionary apostolate.

Ordination
In fieri:
No
Valere coepit:
Primo promulgata:

45

  1. A brother who is going to spend some time in the territory of another province should notify the relevant prior provincial in advance, with due regard for n. 137.
  2. A brother who is travelling should as far as possible stay in our own convents wherever we have them.
Ordination
In fieri:
No
Substitutum:
Valere coepit:
Primo promulgata:

385

  1. The regional prior has charge of the vicariate as the vicar of the prior provincial and has, in addition to the faculties granted by the provincial chapter, the right:
    1. to assign brothers who are in the vicariate, without prejudice to the rights of the prior provincial;
    2. to confirm a conventual prior as provided for in n. 467 and to appoint superiors of houses as provided for in n. 332, unless the vicariate statute provides otherwise;
    3. to participate by right of office in the provincial council, unless something different has been laid down in the pro­vincial statute;
    4. to participate by right of office in a provincial chapter – see 352, § I, 1.
    1. The regional prior is elected for four years by the voters assigned to the convents of the vicariate and is confirmed by the prior provincial with the consent of his council;
    2. when the time for which the regional prior was elected has expired or when for any reason whatsoever he has ceased to hold office, until a successor has been confirmed his office shall be held by the prior who has spent the longest time in the Order in the same vicariate;
    3. what has been laid down for a conventual prior in n. 302, § I, holds for a regional prior, mutatis mutandis.
Ordination
In fieri:
No
Valere coepit:
Primo promulgata:
  • 1

    Process of Canonization, MOPH XVI, p. 178, n. 3.

  • 2

    Humbert of Romans, Expositio Regulae, XVI: Opera de vita regulari, ed Berthier 1, p. 72.