- Celebration of the eucharista this is the “centre and fulfilment of the Christian community’s life” and of our own daily lives. We are allowed to share in the heritage of love that the Christ experienced on His cross until He put Himself into His father’s hands; the power of His love can thus become our own power to love every Brother or Sister and carry out His project about the Church and humanity.
The lauds, the thanksgiving, the memory of the mysteries of salvation, the supplications and the savouring of heavenly glory are qualities of the eucharistic mystery and are celebrated all along the day through the LITURGY OF THE HOURS as follows:
- Office of readings for the meditation of the Scriptures and of the best works of spiritual authors
- Monring lauds when we consecrate to God the first impulses of our mind and spirit before starting every activity, according to the Scriptures: “I remembered God, and was delighted” (Sal 76,4)
- Middai prayer divided into three different moments: terce, sext and none, as the great prophets of the Old Testament did: “Daniel made his prayer three times a day” (Dan. 6, 14).
- Vespers through which we thank the Lord of what we have been given during the day and of our work. Our evening sacrifice is thus one with the Christ’s evening sacrifice, the one the Lord gave His disciples in the Last Supper – when he introduced the holy mysteries of the Church – as well as the one He celebrated the next day, when he lifted His arms on the cross and offered Himself as a living evening sacrifice for the salvation of the whole world.
- Complineis the last prayer before the night rest.
THE TIME OF FRATERNITY
We received our vocation to witness the divine project of communion that is the very goal in the history of man, and this we do sharing our properties, fraternal love, project of life and activities in a world where communion is often missing. We all together live this fraternal life, sharing prayer, housework, work and the meetings of our community such as the Convent Chapter, the Family Meeting and the Community Recreation, where we experience fraternal love through dialogue, while working, singing or playing always in a joyful atmosphere.
THE TIME OF WORK
Time is particularly important to the Christian world. The world was created in a temporal dimension, and the history of salvation, whose highest points were the time of Incarnation and that of the Easter mystery, developed inside time. The Christ contains all time in Himself and relates this time to God.
Work, also when it is hard, allows us to take part in the Salvation that the Christ fulfilled through His pains and the death on the cross. Work is important to us both as a service to other people and as accomplishment of God’s reign to which we all are called to take part in. |