While Dominican spirituality
has taken many different expressions throughout the centuries,
our congregation has chosen to express
our Dominican spirituality in
our lives and in the following words:
Redeemed in the blood of Jesus and sanctified by his spirit, despite our weakness and limitations, we strive to imitate his commitment to the proclamation of the reign of God.
We especially honor Mary, the Mother of Jesus as Our Lady of the Rosary, and we look to her to assist us in responding to God’s gift of life in Christ, saying with her: “Let it be done to me according to God’s Word.” (Lk 1:38)
We seek to embody in our lives the apostolic spirit of Saint Dominic, who revered Mary, and who gives us an on-going model for prayerful study in pursuit of truth, for fruitful contemplation, and for ministerial action.
Saint Dominic, a spirit-filled disciple of the gospel, raised up by God to meet the needs of his age, dared to develop a new mode of apostolic religious life.
Dominic’s Order of Preachers incorporated in a creative way the proclamation of the Word through a ministry of preaching and teaching centered in contemplation and study and sustained by liturgical prayer and common life.
As women freely dedicated to the Word of God spoken in Christ, in Mary, and in Dominic we live a vowed commitment in community with one another and with the Church, and act in a way that publicly speaks of the Risen Christ working in us through the power of the Spirit.
Because we are gospel-centered, devoted to Mary and Dominic, our spirit is one of joy, of generosity, of hospitality, and of living faith.
Called by God, inspired by our heritage, and enlightened and strengthen through prayer, we daily commit ourselves to do the work of the reign of God so that, through the merciful love of God, we and those we serve may have life to the full. Constitutions I, #5-12
June 3, 2010
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