Acts of the 7th European Assembly of

Lay Dominican Fraternities

Annex IIi
 FRATERNITY
ST. CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA
SOFIA, BULGARIA
 Bulgaria is an orthodox
country.

SHORT HISTORY
 Maria Kominek,
a Lay Dominican Bulgarian living
in Poland is the founder of the
fraternity;
the first member in Bulgaria
entered
in 1987.

SHORT HISTORY
Meeting in Rome 2003

SHORT HISTORY
 Fr. Gerald Stookey promoted
the constitution of the fraternity,
officially approved by
the Master Carlos A. Costa OP
on 25 November 2005, the feast
day of St. Catherine of Alexandria.

SHORT HISTORY
 Fraternity of
St. Catherine
of Alexandria
is now a part of the
Hungarian Vicariate.

SHORT HISTORY
 The regular weekly meetings
have the following order:
participation in the Holy Mass,
prayer of Vespers and
listening and discussion of
formative reading matter.

LIFE IN THE FRATERNITY

Once a month - a meditation
day

LIFE IN THE FRATERNITY

 The day for meditation
includes Holy Mass, Matins,
reflection on Gospel or
readings of Dominican saints,
adoration and prayer.

LIFE IN THE FRATERNITY

 At least once a year there is a
retreat only open to members.

LIFE IN THE FRATERNITY

Usually after the retreat there is
the solemnity of making
promises.

LIFE IN THE FRATERNITY

 The members endeavor to lead
a life in Sacraments and prayer
as well as to acquire theological
knowledge and to deepen it
through reading.

PRIVATE OCCUPATIONS
 As the sole representative
of the Dominican Order
in the Bulgarian Catholic
Church, our fraternity above all
bears witness to the specific
Dominican spirituality.

ACTIVITIES
 With our activity we contribute
to the popularizing of
the Aristotelian-Thomistic way
of thinking, which is virtually
unknown among the
Bulgarian intellectuals.

ACTIVITIES
 Some of the members
constitute the main body of
the Catholic Cultural Centre
attached to the Apostolic
Exarchy.

ACTIVITIES
Meetings, lectures and
open retreats of the visiting
priests

ACTIVITIES
 The Christian series ‘Vita
Christiana’ published a recent
Dominican author
in Bulgaria for the first time.

ACTIVITIES
Some of the members
participate in the work of
the World Bible Community on
the new ecumenical translation of
the Holy Scripture.

ACTIVITIES
 The members attend
international catholic
conferences
dedicated to catholic press,
cultural centers, university.

ACTIVITIES
 FRATERNITY
ST. CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA
SOFIA, BULGARIA