"The love of Christ impels us to be bread and wine for the world." (Cor. 5:14)
Intimacy with Christ, nurtured in Eucharistic prayer and genuine sisterly love in community, provides the strength and compassion we need to accomplish our mission. |
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Our principal mission
is to give witness to Christ through our consecrated
life lived in community. As an active apostolic
congregation, we embrace the mission entrusted to us by
Christ: to go out to all the world and bring the good
news—love, justice, peace. It is a great grace that God
should permit us to assist in the spread of his
kingdom. (Mother Pauline, 1877)—SCC Constitutions,
Article 32
Our characteristic
spirit of youthful joyousness gives us strength,
courage, and readiness for our works of love.
(Mother Pauline, 1849) Our Congregation strives to
bring Christ’s light to our various ministries in which
the poor of any kind experience our special love and
attention. Whatever our ministry, it is to be rooted in
a distinctive charity that is the fruit of a
contemplative, Eucharistic lifestyle. My hands at
work; my heart with God. (Mother Pauline, 1880)
Ministry is a work of
faith that is supported and fostered by a loving
community. We are ready to go wherever we are sent and
fulfill whatever assignment is given to us. In all the
stages of life, we joyfully and perseveringly accept the
challenge of working with Christ in building up the
kingdom—even in the face of difficulties. Results
cannot be judged by purely human standards. We sow
faithfully, not concerned about then the harvest will be
ready or by whose hands the reaping will be done.—SCC
Constitutions, Article 33
Education
Education: We serve as teachers (pre-school through
college), administrators, directors of religious
education, librarians, guidance counselors,
instructional aides, parish minister and youth
ministers.
Health Care
We serve the sick as administrators, nurses, technicians, therapists, dieticians, and pastoral ministers in our hospitals and nursing care facilities.
Homemaking
Supportive of our apostolates, our Sisters currently engaged in homemaking add another dimension of service to our local communities and provide a source of charitable outreach within parish life.
Retreat Work:
We serve in Community sponsored retreat facilities.
Days of recollection, retreat weekends, programs of a
spiritual nature, and various retreat are offered.
