What is Contemplative Life
Our Monastery is entirely dedicated to the contemplative life. Yet someone may ask, “But sister, what is this contemplative life?”
The Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes (SCRSI), has pointed out with great precision the exact position of Institutes dedicated to contemplation within the greater magisterium of the Church.
The SCRSI has explained that numerous are those who have heard Jesus’ call to “come away by ourselves to a lonely place”(Mk 6:3) and have followed Christ, withdrawing into the solitude to worship Father there (Venite Seorsum 15, August).
Withdrawing from the world for the sake of leading a more intense life of prayer in solitude, the Sacred Congregation explains, is nothing other than a very particular way of living and expressing the paschal Mystery of Christ, which is death ordained towards resurrection—it is precisely on this account the monasteries were founded, situated as they are, in the very heart of the mystery of Christ.
We, the Nuns at Corpus Christi Monastery, have embraced this as our God-given identity within Christ’s mystical body, the Church. Necessarily therefore, we strive daily, with the help of the strong and support Arm of God’s grace, to reaffirm the absolute primacy that God must occupy in the lives of each individual nun and our community as a whole, called as we have been, to be souls on fire with divine love, contemplatives ceaselessly dedicated to prayer. Ours is a call to have our gaze fixed on the Son of God to the end, in ceaseless contemplation of His mysteries—fulfilling in spousal dimension the following of the Lord, renewing the mystery of the fertile virginity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, spouse of the Holy Spirit, the perfect woman.
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