Our Prayer Life

Our prayers as a community strengthen us and unite us together with Christ. We come together for the Holy Mass, the Liturgy of the Hours, Adoration and Holy Hours, the Rosary, and other communal devotions. Other elements of our prayer life include an annual retreat and days of recollection.

Personal prayer is an intimate, generous response to God’s love, and it is indispensable for a life in union with Him. Each Sister’s personal prayer life consists of mental prayer (meditation) and personal time in Adoration, the Stations of the Cross, and other private devotions.

Growth in the spiritual life would not be possible without time for silence, penance, and spiritual reading.

To pursue intimacy with God, we must intentionally pursue times of silence, which are essential for us to hear the Lord speaking in our hearts. As a community, we nurture the spirit of silence by practicing it daily.

As Franciscans, the cross is for us, as it was for Christ, proof of the greatest love. Penance is a lifestyle which expresses our love for God above all else, turning away from ourselves to live more fully for others. We participate in communal acts of penance, such as fast days, and we are encouraged to do penance privately as well.

We cannot know Christ without spending time with Him in the Scriptures. Professing the Gospel as our life, we read daily from sacred Scripture to enter into the mystery of God’s Word among us. Likewise, through spiritual reading we nourish our life in Christ, our love for the Father, and our growth in the Spirit. Each Sister spends at least fifteen minutes a day with the Scriptures and spiritual reading.