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CANONICAL LIFE

 

Emanating from one fundamental concept, our life is a life of ecclesial communion, there flows the entire spiritual and social structure of our Order. This celestial character of our canonical life, as provided by St. Norbert, Our founder, and St Augustine our teacher, moves the members to the communion of the Church which is both already given as gift by Christ, yet always needing to be built up continually in our Communities. This same ecclesial dimension is to come froth in the form of both the worship of God and also in charitable service toward the brethren in the manner specially entrusted to us in our threefold complementary ministries.

 

The ministry of hearing the word of God and preaching. The ministry of celebrating the liturgy and the consecration of the temporal order. The ministry of building up both the ecclesial and human community in love.

 

COMMUNITY LIFE

 

The plan for common outline has been actualized in the complex reality of daily life. To this end we hold to those elements from the canonical tradition of our Order which most effectively promote communion or which serve to promote authentic Christian and religious values, as well as promoting the ecclesiastical mission of our Churches.

Aspects

  • The asceticism of Common Life

  • Common Exercises

  • Silence and the Cloister

  • Hospitality

  • Our Work

  • A Common storehouse

  • Courtesy

  • The Day Order

  • The Habit

  • Care of the Sick and Elderly and those of Advanced Age

  • Prayers and works on behalf of the deceased confreres

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