Community Life

• We seek God together in community and share a common mission and vision. Our life together unites and focuses our energies in spreading the Gospel.

• We desire to be together in the dailiness of life by sharing our common prayer and table, our leisure, our talents, our joys and struggles.

• We seek to recognize and develop the gifts and abilities of our sisters for the benefit of the individual, the community, and society.

• We call each other to lives of moderation.

• We strive to share and reverence all the goods of the monastery.

• By the stability of our community life, we commit ourselves to each other and to seeking God at this time and in this place.

Prayer

• We commit ourselves to a life of prayer, praising God and bringing before
  God the needs of all people.

• Our prayer in common and in solitude unites us with others and sustains us throughout the day.

• We gather daily to pray the Liturgy of the Hours.

• We celebrate the Eucharist, God’s presence in and among us.

• We value the quality of our liturgical prayer which gives expression to our monastic life.

• We are nurtured by our daily Lectio.

• Our lives are enriched and renewed by times of silence and solitude and frequent communal celebrations which bring healing and reconciliation.

Hospitality

• We reverence all God’s creation.

• We are hospitable to each other, respecting individual and community needs.

• We endeavor to receive all people as Christ and to share who we are and
  what we have.

• We strive to balance our hospitality to guests and our personal time with
  God and community.

Work

• Our primary work is to seek God together in community.

• Our service flows from our monastic life together.

• Together we seek to respond to the needs of the Church and of society.

• We strive to be leaders in our ministries by giving witness to the Benedictine values of community, prayer, hospitality, and work.

• We recognize the value and sacredness of manual labor.

• We endeavor to be responsible stewards of what we have been given.

• We uphold fair treatment and just wages for all.