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Their
desire is to please the Father and reach to His perfection.
Lead by the Holy Spirit.
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Close
relationship to Our Lady whom they choose as Mother,
Protectress, Teacher and Intercessor. They obey her
and imitate her as far as is possible. They share this
relationship with others.
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They
recognize and have a special love for the Paschal Mystery.
They desire to be one with Jesus and Mary in this mystery.
They help others to understand this mystery and help
others to live it in their lives.
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They
possess a deep spirit of prayer, watching, waiting,
keeping vigils and fasting.
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Their
actions flow from contemplation, living in union with
the Triune God.
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They
have a deep spirit of thanksgiving, praise and wonder.
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They
have a spirit of blessing all things wherein they desire
to communicate God's life and strength to all creation
and to bring all to salvation.
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Their
spirit reveals the simplicity of a child and the humility
of Our Lady.
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They
waste no time in reaching to the needs of the Church
and especially moving to the poorest of the poor.
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They
live in the spirit of the evangelical counsels: poverty,
chastity and obedience.
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They
have a spirit of joy in the face of persecution.
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The
generosity of the Father is reflected in the self-giving
of the disciples.
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Their
interior vision is always fixed upon God in His unchangeableness
and in His perfections.
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They
sacrifice their whole being to the most-High God and
open themselves to the dispositions of the Divine Will,
desiring nothing else.
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Disciples
place everything, all adversity, prosperity, their salvation
and the salvation of all others in the hands of God.
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They
listen interiorly to the voice of the Good Shepherd
and follow Him at all times.
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They
root out all self-love and self-interest.
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They
purify themselves of sin and do not knowingly perform
imperfections.
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They
have a deep love for the mysteries of the lives of Jesus
and Mary. Their spirit is to celebrate their feasts
with careful preparation and purity of conscience.
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They
live from communion to communion, in deep reverence
and gratitude for the institution of the Holy Eucharist.
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They
have a special relationship to all the sacraments, especially
the sacraments of initiation.
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They
strive to live and work in the Presence of God at all
times and to reach to great things for Him.
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They
are enveloped by a silence which comes from recollection
and prayer and in which they guard their interior and
exterior senses and faculties, especially from the vanities
of the world.
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They
are discreet at all times.
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They
do not attach themselves to anyone so that they can't
relate to everyone. They see always the Image of Christ
in others and the goodness of the Father.
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They
love with a constant and fervent charity.
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They
are sensitive to the different ways in which Jesus and
Mary disciple them and others; sometimes in humility,
sometimes in obedience, sometimes in purity, etc.
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They
have a special love for and obedience to the Church
in whom they find the treasuries of salvation, refuge
and consolation, hope in their exile and light and truth
to guide them.
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They
cherish unity and shun all that divides.
