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Conventual Sisters of St. Dominic |
VOCATIONS
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| Young women who seek to express their dedication to God through the following: |
* Contemplative prayer
* Study and the defence of Divine Truth
* The Sacred Liturgy of the Church
* Communal life within a monastic framework
* Asceticism and personal spiritual discipline
* A life of material simplicity.
May wish to discern their vocation within this community.
| The community requires that anyone seeking for such a discernment opportunity should: |
* Be under the age of thirty (although consideration will be given, in some circumstances, to applicants over thirty).
* Have normal physical and emotional health.
* Possess a strong and rationally developed desire to give herself totally to God.
* Possess normal intelligence and a reasonable level of education, and have a desire to use both in the service of God and the Church.
* Desire to make continual progress in the spiritual life, and to do so within a specifically Dominican form of spirituality.
* Be docile to the Magisterium of the Church.
* Understand something of the true theological meaning and practical implications of the three vows of the Consecrated Religious Life - Poverty, Chastity and Obedience.
* Be engaged in a serious cultivation of her spiritual life through regular reception of the Sacraments of Penance and the Eucharist, and through prayer, asceticism and the practice of the virtues - especially of charity.