The solemn celebration of the liturgy is the heart of our whole life and the chief source of its unity…

Reflection by a sister of the monastery - “Why wait to offer yourself to the cleansing power of divine love?”

“Mr. Fusco and his men held their breath for fear that the barns would collapse….”

Mutual understanding and sisterly communion are fostered by various forms of recreation….

“Bishop O’Brien made a tour of the monastery with Reverend Mother and two of the Sisters. When he returned, he laughingly announced that he did not care to buy the place…”

Let the nuns share gratefully the riches of their prayers and merits with the benefactors who share with them their own spiritual and temporal resources….

Reflection by a sister of the monastery - “Every Dominican nun knows that work can be a source of joy because joy is an effect of love….”

The perseverance and skill which work requires and the benefits it brings foster mental equilibrium and the formation and development of personality….

The nuns are urged more than the rest of the faithful to deny themselves, take up their cross, and bear the death of Jesus in body and soul….

By our profession we dedicate ourselves to God…

“It was during the Office of the Dead that the Sisters first heard the strange noise…”

Because of the effort it demands, work is one of the more common forms of asceticism…

“All the angels looked on in wonder at the procession of nuns hopping through a window…”

Like St. Dominic, who was outstanding as ‘father and consoler of the sick brethren and those who were undergoing trials,’ …

Reflection by a sister of the monastery - “The care of old and infirm nuns is a striking example of what “common life” means in a monastic community….”

“The conventual Mass should be the center of the community liturgy…”

“The sisters fit so snugly on the benches that there was scarcely room for any of us to put on weight; and if one sneezed rather suddenly, she was likely to give the sister near her a good jolt….”

The blessed Dominic recommended some form of study to the first nuns as an authentic observance of the Order…

The nuns should readily give themselves to work with all their powers of mind and heart as well as their gifts of nature and grace…

The nuns should keep in mind that just as they share together in the Eucharistic Bread, they should also partake of their bodily food as a sign of sisterly communion. Constitutions of the Nuns, 54.I