ACTS OF THE 7th EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY OF LAY DOMINICAN FRATERNITIES

ANNEX Ic

TREASURER’S ACTIVITY REPORT

BESIDES THE SPECIFIED OFFICES

Besides the specified offices – as you may know – we found that it is very
important that ECLDF members set up and keep connections with the members of
the provinces. For this reason we distributed provinces among ourselves to point out
top priorities when building connections. I have tried to make efforts in the following
countries.

In Bulgaria there are no friars, no sisters, there is no province, no vicariate, but there
is a living Lay Dominican fraternity and the Order there is not yet off icially
established. In 2005 I visited this fraternity in Sofia, Bulgaria and helped them in their
official foundation. The Master of the Order approved their existence under the
Hungarian Vicariate in 2005. Our vicar also visited them and conducted a spiritual
retreat for them. Now this fraternity is officially recognized. We keep in touch.

In the Ukraine there are some Hungarian Lay Dominicans living next to the
Hungarian border who asked for my help (in 2006) via the Hungarian Dominican
sisters who are there on mission. Some of my fraternity members visited them and
one of them from the Ukraine also visited us. I helped them by sending Dominican
readings in Hungarian and we have had discussions. We keep in touch.

I was invited to Croatia in 2005 to participate in the Croatian Dominican Family

meeting. It was a generous invitation and a great honour for me. I was asked to give
a talk about why it is worthwhile and important to lead a Dominican life. I would have
loved to visit them, but unfortunately I fell ill with pneumonia and high blood pressure
and I was not able to travel to Croatia to meet the Dominicans there. Instead I sent
my talk and they translated it from English into Croatian and it was read during the
meeting.

In 2003 I had to visit the friars in Chieri, in the northern part of Italy, on behalf of the
Hungarian Vicar since an Italian friar – whom I met on the occasion of an ECLDF
meeting in Brussels – invited us to visit the convent where a Hungarian Dominican
friar lived during the communist times and died in 1985. This was the 1 st visit of the
Hungarian Vicariate there. I also met there a Lay Dominican, Ruth Henderson, who
was a great help to me as a translator.

I consider it of high importance that at home, in Hungary, I have regularly informed

the friars, the sisters and the fraternities about the European Lay Dominican
activities. What is part of one’s own life is also news for the others. Information flow is
a basic element for building connections.

I did not miss any of the 11 ECLDF meetings that we held during the 7 years of my
service. I hosted 2 of these meetings in Hungary. Thanks be to God we never had
any serious troubles with each other within the ECLDF. We helped each other. We
experienced much. We were able to work together to prepare the assemblies.

When sending out e-mails regarding ECLDF webpage updates and when trying to
collect yearly contributions from the provinces, I was in touch with many of you.
Thank you for your prayers and for the financial support you provided . Until you find
someone else, I offer my support to the new Council as a person who can keep the
website regularly updated.

My term is over, and I would like to tell you that I have really enjoyed it. Sometimes it
was difficult to find the time to do the work late in the evenings, but I loved it.

I would like to express how grateful I am to God who invited me to fulfil this task. It
has been very interesting during these years to get to know a lot of Dominican people
and several Dominican places. I have learnt much from the people I met and we keep
praying for each other. This is very valuable.

I would like to express my special thanks to Patricia Robinson, former ECLDF

president, who nominated me in 2001. Thank you for your confidence. I never
thought myself that I would be able to fulfil such a task on a council like this. I learnt
much from Patricia during our joint work.

Thank you Fr. Jerry and Fr. David, our promoters general, who have always
supported our work.
Thank you to every member of the ECLDF for working together:
Robert Kopfmüller-Knabe,
Gabriel Silva,
Chantal Soligny,
Tomas Machula,
And double thanks to Eva Kameniarova, together with whom I spent a
double term!
And thank you to Patricia Kelly, ICLDF.

Nikolett Murányi, May 2008

ECLDF Treasurer & Webmaster