Tuesday, April 10, 2018

A Window into our life



Welcome to a new ‘feature’ on our web-site …
We shall call it a ‘Window into the Life of a Dominican Nun,’ in a rather loose way. 

Through this ‘window,’ we hope to give you an idea of what the life of a contemplative nun of the Order of Preachers consists in; to offer some food for thought; maybe also help you to encounter God in a more personal way; and to help any young women who might be discerning a vocation, to understand better who we are and whether how we live, is how they also seek to live, for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.

The beginning of our Constitutions shows how we are so closely connected to our brothers and sisters in the Dominican Family:
            “… the first reason for which we are gathered together in community
            is to live in harmony, having one mind and heart in God. 
            This unity transcends the limits of the monastery and attains its fullness in
            communion with the Order and with the whole Church of Christ.

One mind and one heart in God.  It is a rare, rare gift, to live in a community where everyone is intent on loving the Lord with every fibre of their being, especially in a world in which He is for the most part ‘an inconvenience’ and unwelcome.  But here we are, with like-minded and like-hearted sisters, and we each share the same fundamental and consuming desire:
That the Lord may be loved; and that everyone on earth might come to know Him and the immensity of His love for them.

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