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Loving Hearts and Praying Hands

"Just as in the Upper Room, Mary in her heart,
with her prayerful presence, watched over
the origins of the Church,
so too now the Church's journey
is entrusted to
the loving hearts and praying hands
of cloistered nuns."
Verbi Sponsa

Our life is a liturgy of praise and adoration, intercession and reparation. Prayer is not something allocated to a portion of our day nor is it simply the saying of prayers. Prayer is truly a way of living, a way of being.

To seek God we open our hearts to Jesus, the Way, the Truth and the Life. By means of the visible humanity of Christ we run to the invisible Godhead.

Following the earliest monastic traditions we gather at six different times each day to pray the Liturgy of the Hours. Praying the very psalms which Jesus prayed we are brought more deeply in touch with all the joys and struggles of the human heart. With the tenderness of Christ we hold in our hearts all of God's precious people. We share their suffering, rejoice in their joys, and intercede for all their needs.

Each morning and evening time is especially reserved for personal meditation and prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. During these times of prayer the journey to God takes on an even more immediate and intimate tone.

Daily celebration of the Eucharist, reception of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, times for retreat, days of recollection and community reflection are all necessary elements of our prayer life.

Our Augustinian contemplative life, like the sanctuary lamp, burns day and night, giving visible witness to God who dwells within the human heart; who shares our burdens, and who loves us with an unquenchable love