Dominican Rite

The missal of the Dominican convent of Lausanne, the oldest Dominican missal currently known. Copied around 1240, 16th-century binding. (Historical Museum of Lausanne)

The Dominican Rite is the unique liturgical rite of the Dominican Order in the Catholic Church. It has been classified differently by different sources – some consider it a usage of the Roman Rite, others a variant of the Gallican Rite, and still others a form of the Roman Rite into which Gallican elements were inserted.[1]

The Dominican Order composed and adopted this rite in the mid-13th century as its specific rite. In 1968, it decided to adopt the revised Roman Rite of Mass and of the Divine Office, as soon as the texts revised after the Second Vatican Council appeared, but it has kept other elements of its proper rite, such as the Rite of Profession.[2]

As a result, the Dominican Rite of the Mass ceased being celebrated as often after the revised Roman Rite was promulgated. However, in recent decades it has been offered occasionally in some provinces of the Dominican Order, and regularly in others. In addition, it is used by the Traditionalist Catholic Fraternity of St. Vincent Ferrer.

  1. ^ Bonniwell, William R. (1945). A HISTORY OF THE DOMINICAN LITURGY 1215–1945 (PDF).
  2. ^ "The Rite of Profession of the Order of Preachers" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-08-03. Retrieved 2007-02-17.