Rome – Via degli Artisti
Rome
Via degli Artisti
COMMUNITY DEPENDENT ON THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT
The house in Rome located on via degli Artisti, also serves as the Generalate House, meaning that since 2006, it has been the residence of the Prioress General together with the four Assistants General, Secretary general and Bursar general.
Since 2018 it has also been a community directly dependent on the General Government, despite being located in the territory of the Province of Italy.
Beginning in August 2022, in accordance with the direction proposed by the General Chapter (February 2022), the community was thought of as a “laboratory of interculturality through fraternal life, study, prayer and mission“.
The community is therefore currently composed of sisters from different entities of the Congregation who responded generously to the appeal of the Prioress General to take part in this project.
For some time now, the community of Via degli Artisti has welcomed some Vietnamese sisters belonging to two different Dominican Congregations, who are in Italy for reasons of study and/or work.
Finally, a Dominican sister responsible for the DSIC (Dominican Sisters International Confederation) lives in the community.
The presence of sisters from various parts of the world and the our Congregation allows the community to experience the richness that comes from this diversity and to try to build itself as a true laboratory of interculturality through the Vita apostolica.
Concretely, in addition to carrying out the service proper of a generalate house (Congregation meetings, welcoming sisters from different parts of the Congregation, etc.), in September 2022, the community has begun an important collaboration with the Centro Astalli, offering a section of the house as an apartment for projects of autonomy or semi-autonomy for immigrant or refugee young women, thus supporting their process of integration into Italian society. To date, approximately six young women have lived in the house within this project.
Finally, the community is involved – through some of its members – in various apostolates in the city of Rome: in activities of the diocesan Caritas, in the Rebibbia prison, and service in several reception communities (run by the Jesuits) for women in difficulty, including those with children.
