OND Community

“I give you a new commandment: love one another. Such as my love has been for you, so must your love for each other. This is how all will know you for my disciples: your love for one another”. (John 13:34-35)

Sincere love makes us truly one. We try to develop warm personal relationships with one another, affirm, counsel, and encourage one another, share one another’s joys and sorrows, and bear with the weaknesses and tensions that result from the differences of temperament, age, and other sources of difficulties. Kindliness and goodness permeate our community relationships. (Titus 3:4)

We are called to create, nurture, and sustain an intentional community mindful of our common search for God and attentive to the spirit in reading the signs of the times, becoming women of dialogue and reconciliation.

We unite ourselves in praise and thanksgiving with the Church in the Liturgy of the Hours. The Eucharistic sacrifice is the source and center of our consecrated life.

As women religious, living in community and sent to mission, we are to be life-givers to the people we serve, to our own sisters, and the whole cosmos. We are to be peace-makers and bridge-builders not only in our communities but also among other religious traditions, cultures, races, nationalities, and social classes. We are to be witnesses to the Reign of God wherever we are, particularly in frontier situations.