Ministry of the Word – Holy Preaching

Although the nuns are not engaged in direct public preaching, they nonetheless discharge this pivotal function of the Order of preachers through prayer.

In his wisdom, Pope St. John XX111 pointed out that the “apostolate in the true sense of the word consists in participation in the salvific work of Christ, which is possible only through assiduous prayer and personal sacrifice.”

The nuns, then, through ardent prayer, accompany the missionary activity of the Order and indeed of the whole church. They participate and are made sharers in Christ’s ministry of intercession, who “even now sits at the right hand of the Father interceding for us.”

Surely, we cannot possibly forget the words of Pope Francis: “Never stop weeping. When priests and religious no longer weep, something is wrong. We need to weep for our infidelity, to weep for all the pain of the world, to weep for all those people who are cast aside, to weep for the elderly who are abandoned, for children who are killed, and for things we do not understand. We need to weep when people ask us: ‘why?’ He went on to say( and this, as spoken from the very depths of his heart), “never stray from Jesus—never stop praying…..do not stop praying.”