Category: Religious Life

Una Voce

1/15/2019

"Inspired by the example of our Blessed Mother and united with her spirit, a deep life of personal, communal and liturgical prayer animates and sustains our consecrated lives."
- MSSR Constitutions -

For each Sister, God's Holy Will is made manifest in a specific way, distinct and different from every other Sister. Yet in the diversity of labors, big and small, there is in reality only One Thing: God. The individual tasks are undertaken for the sole reason that they are God's manifestation of His Will, the way in which He desires that particular Sister to serve Him on that particular day.

Intimacy with the Lord is not a matter of physical kinship; rather, it is achieved by cheerful readiness to do the will of God.
St. Basil the Great

There is a general rule concerning all special graces granted to any human being. Whenever the divine favor chooses someone to receive a special grace, or to accept a lofty vocation, God adorns the person chosen with all the gifts of the Spirit needed to fulfill the task at hand. ~ St. Bernardine of Siena

They Found the Child...

1/6/2019

"...They found the Child with Mary his Mother and falling down, they adored him. And opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold, frankincense, and myrrh. ...They went back another way..." - Matthew 2

Adoration of the Christ Child

12/25/2018

Adoration of the Christ Child by Carl Von Marr

Prayer to Know One's Vocation

11/17/2018

O Great Saint Joseph

O Great Saint Joseph, you were completely obedient to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Obtain for me the grace to know the state of life that God in His providence has chosen for me. Since my happiness on earth, and perhaps even my final happiness in heaven, depends on this choice, let me not be deceived in making it. Obtain for me the light to know God's Will, to carry it out faithfully, and to choose the vocation which will lead me to a happy eternity. Amen.

"In Union with Mary..."

11/8/2018

Our charism statement begins, "In union with Mary...," and this Marian relationship shapes and characterizes our lives of consecration.

Communicating Beauty, Goodness, and Truth

10/29/2018

In union with Mary, Mother of the Church, we strive to magnify Jesus Christ, her Divine Son, by communicating the Beauty, Goodness, and Truth of the Catholic Faith while living the fullness of the Church's liturgical life.
MSSR Charism Statement

Feastday Fun!

10/20/2018

"Let us pray to Holy Mary for our Sister on her feast. Let us ask our loving Mother, grace and blessing to increase, that our Sister may grow closer to the Heart of Christ our King, and her holy Patron guide her, ever by the Cross to cling..." - MSSR Feastday Song

Franciscan Visit

10/16/2018

O Most High and Glorious God, enlighten the darkness of my heart and give me, Lord, a correct faith, a certain hope, a perfect charity, sense and knowledge, so that I may carry out your holy and true command. - St. Francis of Assisi

Let My Prayer...

10/13/2018

Let my prayer rise before you like incense, and the lifting of my hands like an evening offering...

Deeply part of our life is the daily chanting of the Liturgy of the Hours, or "Divine Office". Etymologically connected to the Latin word for work, "Office" refers to the performance of a task, a duty.

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