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Believing in Christ’s continuing presence in the universe, we approach all reality in an attitude of reverence
Aware of our contemplative mission in the Church, we give ourselves to private prayer, to communal prayer, and to continuous study.
We open ourselves to a deeper intimacy with God by cooperating in the Spirit’s transforming action within us.
Like Mary, sign of hope in the pilgrim Church, we ponder in our hearts the great things the Lord is doing through us, with us, and in us.
We believe the mystery of the Eucharist is the heart and center of Christian life.
At the Eucharistic table we seek to be penetrated by the Word of God; we celebrate daily life as a worshipping community, giving thanks and praise to God; we unite with Christ and each other as bread broken and shared, and as wine poured out for God’s people.
Creatively drawing from the mysteries of creation, the Word of God the liturgy, the traditions of the Dominican Family, the arts and disciplines of the past and the present, and the truth or our own experience, we enter deeply and actively into the transformative process that celebrates new life.
We hear the Spirit speaking to us in the drab as well as the beautiful, in sorrows as well as joys, and in absurdities as well as ordered development, both human and cosmic.
From Article III PRAYER AND STUDY in Attentive to the Lord: Constitution Dominican Sisters Congregation of the Immaculate Conception Great Bend, Kansas November, 1982 |
