What Makes Us Tick?

The Answer:

 

 

 

 

We believe, passionately, in life.

We believe that God gave us life and we want to give it back to him, completely; a poor life, a blessed life

 

 

 

 

A time for growth and a time for pruning,

a time for creating and a time for restoring,

a time for birth and a time for learning,

a time for death and a time for rising

 

Look at this row of hands. Are they clasped in individual prayer?
They are the hands of some of our sisters.

 

Yes, they are hands clasped in friendship, joined together in the dance of life.

 

We believe that the Lord leaves none of us tied to the stake of our individuality, caged by the heredity and early environment, predisposed helplessly, by the things we have done or which have been done to us.

We, too, came from the same proportion of broken homes, unhappy family, wrong choices and fragile relationships as the rest of humanity. And the Lord in his beautiful love has given us a new family. A family built not on ties of blood and common upbringing but on his Gospel, gathered in his presence, made one with him and with each other around the table of his self-giving love.

We are a rainbow family, children of the wounded, singing Saint Francis. Children of Saint Clare, the lady with the mirror under the Cross. Children of Saint Colette, the pilgrim of truth.

We are ourselves a rainbow; colours separate yet blended seamlessly, forming a pattern in the Lord's creative Light. Receiving and extending freedom, forgiveness and nurturing. Hands clasped together in a life of prayer. Our prayer is not just the hours spent daily in choir singing the psalms, praying the liturgy, reading the Word, or in silence, adoring the Lord. It is the repairing in love of the brokenness of society which we carry within ourselves, bearing one another's burdens for the love of God.

In loving Jesus, we take Mary as our mother. We sing her Magnificat. We find our way forward in the pattern of her magnificat, the song in which she praises the God who lifts up the lowly. May her "Yes" to God be our own.