Our
Spirituality
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The Servant Sister of the Home lives a spirituality of identification
with Jesus Christ and transformation in Him, from the womb of the Virgin
Mary.
-We also have a spirituality of sanctuary. In other words,
we procure that our soul be a sanctuary exclusively of God,
wherein the alliance with Our Lord and with Mary is realised, where She
can establish her throne, distribute her treasures and work miracles of
grace.
- The Servant Sister, furthermore, disposes herself to become the
Gift of Our Lord for His Mother. Our Mother becomes for us a
model of the gift for the Lord and for this reason we must imitate her
interior dispositions and attitudes of donation, of charity and of abandonment
in the hands of God.
-We have a Carmelite spirituality. That is, the
union with God through the “nothings” of St. John of the Cross,
so that we may be a  manifestation
of the glory of God. This emptying of the self is in order to
fill oneself with God and let Him work in us. Following the example of
the prophet Elias, we want to be obedient to
the Holy Spirit in a spontaneous and conscious way, at all cost,
being faithful and safeguarding the Covenant with the only True God and
the reestablishment of the purity of the faith, even if it implies death.
As a unique characteristic of this spirituality, we wish to imitate the
virtues of the Virgin Mary, centering our devotion in
imitation of and intimacy with the Virgin.
- Another characteristic of our spirituality is to live in trust,
in abandonment to God and total availability, always being disposed
to go wherever the Lord sends us through obedience.
- The Servant Sisters of the Home are a a spiritual family that
is not defined by its work but by its being, in agreement with
its charism within the Church.
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Our
3 Characteristics
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Servant Sisters make every effort to be recognized for these three characteristics:
- true joy
- unity with our Sisters
- selfless love for the Church
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Community
Life 
The community life, that prefigures the city of heaven and the
glory of the resurrection, is essential in the Servant Sisters.
It should not have as its end us ourselves, but rather the Church and
all men.
Our community, Cenacle of charity, has to be constructed under the
breath of the Holy Spirit and the maternal protection of the Virgin Mary.
The atmosphere in which the community life grows is in that of charity
which recognizes that we are a fraternal communion and a communion
of love.
One of the most important agents for our community life is silence,
which is not just to stay quiet in order to empty oneself but rather to
stay silent in order to listen to God and to unite ourselves more
to Him. The Servant Sisters keep silence from the time of Vespers
in the evening until the following morning after prayer. During meals
we have spiritual reading apart from the half hour of
personal reading that we also have as a community.
Every morning we do an hour of mental prayer with the Blessed
Sacrament exposed and a half an hour in the evening. We
pray the Rosary daily and, on feast-days of Our Blessed Mother
and the evening before, we pray it with greater solemnity. On
Thursday nights we do turns of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament,
uniting ourselves to the sufferings of Jesus Christ in his Passion. Similarly,
wherever we go, we try to introduce - or to recover in many cases - the
Holy Hours in the parishes, with the conviction that
God is alive, is effective, and continues to convert people. Our
main task is to bring everyone from children to adults to adoration of
the Eucharist. The Lord himself will take care of the rest. Every
month we have a day of retreat and every year the Spiritual
Exercises in solitude and silence.
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