"The first mission of the community is to create the vital environment that allows us to experience God and communicate it."
(Rule of Life, I.42) |
"It is the Lord who brings us together to live the same vocation. In the midst of a world divided by hatred and sin, our community reveals that it is Christ who realizes our communion and helps us to live with joy and love. Our community life, a sign of his presence, thus prepares the coming of a new world."
(Rule of Life, I.40) |
"By the profession of the evangelical counsels we commit ourselves to follow Christ, to be transformed into His likeness, to work in the Church for the coming of His Kingdom, and thus to strive together for the fullness of charity."
(Rule of Life, I.2) |
"Like our Founders, we desire to live by faith. Contemplating how God is at work in the world and in human hearts, we gradually become women of faith who see the realities of our times with the eyes of God."
(Rule of Life, I.5) |
"Prayer, the heart of our religious, personal, community, and apostolic life, allows us to enter into union with Jesus Christ and to experience His love for the Father and for all people. It enlivens us for mission. In a world thirsting for productivity, gratuitous prayer is the sign of the absolute priority of God in our lives."
(Rule of Life, I.52) |
"The liturgy, the source and summit of the life of the Church, occupies an essential place in the life of the community."
(Rule of Life, I.54) |
"By the will of our founders, we are essentially missionaries."
(Rule of Life, I.64) |
"Basically, the Congregation is open to all forms of ministry. Faithful to the vision of our Founders we choose preferably those ministries which favor 'the multiplication of Christians,' awaken faith faith, allow us to form communities of Christians and apostles, and are more particularly concerned with youth and the poor."
(Rule of Life, I.67) |