Purity
All Christians are called to be pure and chaste in
heart, body and faith. Married Sisters pledge chastity within
the married state. Chastity, in the case of married women,
does not mean celibacy. It is a purity and chasteness within
the bounds of the sacrament of marriage. The Community upholds
the traditional definition of marriage, in accord with the
historic teaching of Holy Scripture and the Church, as being
the consecrated union only between a man and a woman. Therefore,
the Community believes that the love, emotions and intimacy
of sexual relations are rightly expressed only within traditional
married life. For single Sisters, the Vow requires celibate
chastity.
"Immorality or any
impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as
is fitting among holy ones, no obscenity or silly or suggestive
talk, which is out of place, but instead, thanksgiving. Be
sure of this, that no immoral or impure or greedy person,
that is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of
Christ and of God." (Ephesians 5:
3-5)
Obedience Under the Vow of Obedience
the Sister strives to perfect the promise made at Baptism
to believe and confess the Christian Faith and to obey God’s
holy Will and Commandments. It is a wholehearted desire, in
obedient love, to learn the Will of God and to do it.
" I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who
sent me."
(John
5:30)
Sisters living "in community", within the convent, Profess Vows of Poverty, Chastity and Obedience, in a radical, complete and sacrificial surrender of worldly attachments and self will, striving for God's Will alone. There is a seeking for that total renunciation which frees one for the pursuit of perfect charity in the imitation of Christ Himself.
