5. COMMUNITY

68. MONKROCK New Monastic Community, formally known as Oblates of the Last Martyrdom, was established on 17 September 2007 under its former name of Transitus. It currently bases its headquarters in St. Louis, MO (USA).

69. The community is open to all Christians (Catholic and non-Catholic) and is organized worldwide in local fraternities within regional and national chapters.

70. The community is governed by its Founder with the Council of Directors, which serves as the spiritual government and administrative body of the Oblates. The Council exists to facilitate and direct all official activity of the Oblates in conformity to the MONKROCK Rule and the teachings of the Catholic Church, in full communion with the Bishop of Rome and in cooperation with ecclesiastical authority.

71. The community is currently defined according to the Code of Canon Law of the Catholic Church as a Private Association of the Faithful.* 

* “By means of a private agreement made among themselves, the Christian faithful are free to establish associations – even by their own undertakings, according to their own state and condition – to exercise the mission which God entrusted to the Church to fulfill in the world: for the purposes of charity or piety or for the promotion of the Christian vocation in the world; to foster a more perfect life, or to promote public worship or Christian teaching; works of piety or charity, those which animate the temporal order with the Christian spirit; and to hold meetings for the common pursuit of these purposes. Associations of this type are called private associations. They are subject to the supervision of ecclesiastical authority…and also to the governance of the same authority.” (1983 CIC, Can. 204 §1; 215; 216; 298 §1; 299 §1-3; 323)