Friarly
  • Home
  • Prayer
    • Liturgical Prayer
    • Personal Prayer
    • Our Team
    • Dominican Compline App
    • The Rosary
  • Friarly Process
  • Life
    • Rule of Life
    • The Vowed Life
    • 'Supports' for a Friarly Life
    • The Common Life
    • Cleric Or Non-Cleric?
  • Preaching
  • Study
    • Reading Plans >
      • Philosophical (Thomistic)
      • Church History
      • Faith & Science
      • Spirituality
      • Literary
      • Scriptural
      • American
      • Rhetorical
      • Theological
      • Discernment & Study Plans
    • Aquinas Institute
  • Dominican Family
    • Cloistered Dominican Nuns
    • Active Dominican Sisters
    • Dominican Laity
    • Priestly Fraternity

The Rule & Constitutions

The Rule of St. Augustine and the Book of Constitutions and Ordinations (LCO) are both complements of the fundamental rule book for the work we do as Dominican Friars, and for the friarly life.

The secular world is full of rulebooks. You can bet on any successful corporate entity (Coca Cola, Amazon, Google etc.) having a handbook that lays out expectations and structure for employees to follow. The LCO does this; it tells us, for example, that hearing Confessions and preaching the Eucharist is central to our mission (LCO 105).


But the LCO is not just an employee handbook for Dominican Friars.

The LCO marks out the outline of our life and it finds itself fulfilled in the friars themselves. It’s more than a rule book. The

​ LCO has been written with heavenly profits in mind, both for Dominican Friars and the people we serve, and that it has been written by Augustine – a saint and Doctor of the Church – and by the Friars themselves.

​ It's the assurance that his Dominican life will bear fruit for the Church and the world.

The Rule of St. Augustine and the Book of Constitutions and Ordinations (LCO) comprises a fundamental rulebook for the work we do as Dominican Friars, and for the life we friars live.


The Book of Constitutions and Ordinations
File Size: 608 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

The Rule of St. Augustine
File Size: 44 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Southern Province Vocations
Central Province Vocations
  • Home
  • Prayer
    • Liturgical Prayer
    • Personal Prayer
    • Our Team
    • Dominican Compline App
    • The Rosary
  • Friarly Process
  • Life
    • Rule of Life
    • The Vowed Life
    • 'Supports' for a Friarly Life
    • The Common Life
    • Cleric Or Non-Cleric?
  • Preaching
  • Study
    • Reading Plans >
      • Philosophical (Thomistic)
      • Church History
      • Faith & Science
      • Spirituality
      • Literary
      • Scriptural
      • American
      • Rhetorical
      • Theological
      • Discernment & Study Plans
    • Aquinas Institute
  • Dominican Family
    • Cloistered Dominican Nuns
    • Active Dominican Sisters
    • Dominican Laity
    • Priestly Fraternity