Sharing the Apostles’ mission, we also follow their way of life, in the form devised by Saint Dominic. To ensure that by following Christ in this way we would perfect our love of God and of our neighbour, we consecrate ourselves entirely to God by profession, thus becoming members of our Order and dedicated in a new way to the universal Church, fully committed to preaching the word of God in its totality. The Order of Friars Preachers, founded by St Dominic, ‘is known to have been established, from the beginning, for preaching and the salvation of souls, specifically.’ Our brothers, therefore, as the founder prescribed, ‘should everywhere behave uprightly and religiously, as men intent on procuring their own and other people’s salvation they should behave as gospel men, following in the footsteps of the Saviour, speaking to God or of God, among themselves or with their neighbours.’ III So he inspired you with a holy desire to embrace poverty, profess the regular life and commit yourselves to the proclamation of the word of God, preaching everywhere the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.’ II The Order’s purpose was described as follows by Pope Honorius III in a letter to St Dominic and his brothers: ‘He who never ceases to make his church fruitful through new offspring wishes to make these modern times the equal of former days and to spread the Catholic faith. It is, in summary form, the past, present, and future of the Order, not as a set of prescriptions or demands, but almost as a love letter, exhorting all who read it to open their hearts afresh to God after the pattern of St. This simple document expresses with admirable concision the historical groundedness of the Order, the life of preaching that has sustained it over the centuries, and the perpetual sources of renewal that well up from the Spirit’s gifts to the Order. The result of that effort was the Fundamental Constitution. As part of their deliberations, the chapter fathers sought to express the timeless, unchanging core of the Dominican Order in a few short elements, as a monument to the Holy Spirit’s work in the Order and as a call to continuing growth and conversion in the spirit of St. In 1968, the Order of Preachers held a Most General Chapter in River Forest, Illinois, as an initial response to the Council’s exhortation. Vatican II’s document on the renewal of religious life, Perfectae Caritatis, calls on all religious orders to participate afresh in “the constant return to the sources of all Christian life and to the original spirit of the institutes and their adaptation to the changed conditions of our time,” in particular updating their constitutions to the Council’s decrees (2). Dominic and Pope Honorius III (Window from the Dominican House of Studies Chapel, Washington, DC, Photograph by Fr. The State supports traditional schools and sects, because it recognises that they are integral components of the faith, culture and scholarly heritage of Islam, though its support does not extend to revivalist or extremist movements.St. The Basic Statute of the State does not differentiate between the different Islamic schools and sects. Its guarantees of freedom of belief, worship and religious education are based on the values of tolerance, mutual understanding and coexistence. The Sultanate is committed to upholding freedom of religion and the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs is the government body responsible for ensuring this. The Sultanate of Oman enjoys sectarian and religious pluralism, but although its people follow diverse schools of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), its policy is designed to ensure that secondary differences have no effect on the fact that all worship the same God and belong to a single community. Oman has a long history as a multicultural society.
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