By work the nuns share the common lot of most people, especially the poor….

The Dominican nun, and anyone who prays the Rosary devoutly, meditates on the mysteries of Christ’s life through the eyes of Our Lady….

The nuns should hold the rosary in special honor….

The nuns, while living together in harmony, follow Jesus as he withdraws into solitude to pray….

Sing to the Lord a new song, a hymn in the assembly of the faithful….

Let Christ, who was fastened to the cross for all, be fast-knit to their hearts….

Work is demanded by religious poverty and serves the common good by building up charity through cooperation…

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! (Psalm 150:6)

Silence should be carefully kept by the nuns especially in places and at times appointed for prayer, study and rest….

At such gatherings the nuns should simply and cheerfully try to make themselves all things to all….

It is the custom for us here in our little monastery to daily make a procession in honor of St. Joseph….

The nuns should foster genuine devotion and veneration for St. Dominic….

The nuns should make of their house, and especially of their hearts, a place of silence….

Obedience, by which we ‘conquer the deepest part of ourselves,’ aids greatly in attaining that interior liberty which belongs to the children of God….

“The first October Pilgrimage in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary was attended by about fifteen hundred people….”

In the common life of the religious family to which they are united in a closer bond through chastity, they should cultivate sisterly affection and serene friendship….

The spirit of poverty impels us, with lively confidence in the Lord, to place our treasure in the kingdom of God and his righteousness….

“Man is debtor chiefly to his parents and his country, after God….”

The vowed religious should be considered not just a sacrifice to God, but a holocaust….