Liturgy and Prayer

Included in our community prayer is Liturgical Prayer. The nuns’ participation in the Eucharistic Sacrifice and the liturgical recitation of the Divine Office constitutes the fulfilment of a function essential to the Ecclesial community, namely, the glorification of God.

Also forming part of our community prayer is the daily recitation of the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary and through its aid, meditating on the mysteries of the Nativity, Life, Death and Resurrection of our Lord which, plainly speaking, make for authentic everyday Christian living. In the practice of the recitation of the rosary too, the nuns give a loving expression and embrace of Our Lady’s urgent and insistent plea to the little shepherd children of Fatima: “ I want you to pray the Rosary daily.”

F.D Joret O.P recounts that the most magnificent eulogy ever pronounced upon our holy father, St. Dominic, was delivered by the Eternal Father Himself to St. Catherine of Siena, and may be read in her celebrated dialogue. “Dominic” said God the Father, “has taken on Him the office of the Word of My only Begotten Son……He is a light which I give to the world through the intervention of Mary.” It was thus that the Dominican Order came to be: through the intervention of Our Lady. LCM 1 (III).

In the school of Our Lady, the nuns learn the art of permitting and embracing the action of God’s grace in their souls thereby being gradually and progressively transfigured and conformed to the image of her divine Son; as such, we ( each nun, singly, and all of us, collectively) are called to become a cradle and a beacon of hope—striving daily to transcend all boundaries, whatever their nature or form, in order to secure—in trust—the hope of all humanity: for truly, stewarding this great mystery is among the greatest privileges and responsibilities of our contemplative life. What’s more, to help the nuns continually renew themselves along this sometimes long and winding spiritual journey and as a way of proving a spiritual platform upon which to reaffirming their dedication and full belonging to the Lord, each year, the monastery organizes within its precincts an  eight (8) day community retreat, three days before Pentecost, three days before Corpus Christi, and an individual three days before each sister’s anniversary of first profession.