Incorporated into the Church, we find the essence of our vocations in adoration, and we give witness of a life permeated by faith and prayer.
We draw our spirit of prayer and our prayer itself from the genuine sources of Christian piety. Daily we reflect upon Sacred Scripture in order to achieve a deeper knowledge and experience of Christ through reading and meditating on the Word of God.
The climax of our worship of God and the central event of our community life is our Eucharistic Celebration. Through our conscious, active participation in this Mystery of our Redemption, we unite ourselves with Christ and so bring in a perfect manner glory and honor to the Father.
The Eucharistic Sacrifice is for us a perpetual offer of grace, one which can increase our faith, hope, and love, and can establish us more deeply in community with God, with our Sisters, and with all people.
In the name and on behalf of the Church, we pray the Divine Office to the praise of the Triune God. We also pray the Divine Office as representatives for our brothers and sisters throughout the world.
We nurture individual private prayer, opening our hearts to the Spirit of God in recollected silence. Such prayer strengthens our loving friendship with Christ, helps us to achieve unity, and strengthens us in fulfilling our responsibility toward the Church and the world.
Like our Holy Father St. Francis, we place a special value on adoration of Christ in the Most Blessed Sacrament and on meditation on His Incarnation and His Passion, and we honor Mary, the Mother of Jesus. Our prayer should help us to remain united with Him in all that we do...
We take sufficient time for our individual private prayer, and we endeavor to establish for ourselves a regular schedule of prayer. From faithfulness and discipline in prater we acquire the strength to persevere in times of inner weariness and dryness.
Daily we devote a half hour to meditation before God, and a further half hour to other private prayer. We value highly the Angelus, the Rosary, and the Way of the Cross as Franciscan prayers.
~ Constitutions, 3
We draw our spirit of prayer and our prayer itself from the genuine sources of Christian piety. Daily we reflect upon Sacred Scripture in order to achieve a deeper knowledge and experience of Christ through reading and meditating on the Word of God.
The climax of our worship of God and the central event of our community life is our Eucharistic Celebration. Through our conscious, active participation in this Mystery of our Redemption, we unite ourselves with Christ and so bring in a perfect manner glory and honor to the Father.
The Eucharistic Sacrifice is for us a perpetual offer of grace, one which can increase our faith, hope, and love, and can establish us more deeply in community with God, with our Sisters, and with all people.
In the name and on behalf of the Church, we pray the Divine Office to the praise of the Triune God. We also pray the Divine Office as representatives for our brothers and sisters throughout the world.
We nurture individual private prayer, opening our hearts to the Spirit of God in recollected silence. Such prayer strengthens our loving friendship with Christ, helps us to achieve unity, and strengthens us in fulfilling our responsibility toward the Church and the world.
Like our Holy Father St. Francis, we place a special value on adoration of Christ in the Most Blessed Sacrament and on meditation on His Incarnation and His Passion, and we honor Mary, the Mother of Jesus. Our prayer should help us to remain united with Him in all that we do...
We take sufficient time for our individual private prayer, and we endeavor to establish for ourselves a regular schedule of prayer. From faithfulness and discipline in prater we acquire the strength to persevere in times of inner weariness and dryness.
Daily we devote a half hour to meditation before God, and a further half hour to other private prayer. We value highly the Angelus, the Rosary, and the Way of the Cross as Franciscan prayers.
~ Constitutions, 3