St Dominic founded his Order of Preachers in 1216, to respond to a desperate need for sound, orthodox preaching in the face of a fatally confused notion of God, of Christ and his Church.  His vision grew as he saw the need for sound preaching for the whole Church in every age.  St Dominic's age was not unlike our own - one in need of a new evangelisation with so many baptised Catholics so far from their faith.  The Friars Preachers were to be modern apostles, sent out to the rest of the world to preach the truth of the one God who revealed himself in the Lord Jesus, the Word made flesh.