Even as a child, our foundress, Mother Mary of Jesus Crucified, had such a tender love for the Blessed Virgin Mary that she preferred carrying a statue of Our Lady to a baby doll….

As has always been the custom in the Order, the nuns should love and reverence the Blessed Mary….

“Sister Irene received the name of Sister Mary Martin of Jesus Crucified….”

The light and source of our study is God….

The habit of the nuns is a sign of their consecration and a witness to poverty….

The nuns should keep before their eyes by day and by night Christ the Lord…

“Reverend Mother with her two assistants, who wore white aprons, began to wash and kiss the feet of all the Sisters, beginning with the oldest…”

The solemn celebration of the liturgy is the heart of our whole life and the chief source of its unity…

Reflection by a sister of the monastery - “Why wait to offer yourself to the cleansing power of divine love?”

“Mr. Fusco and his men held their breath for fear that the barns would collapse….”

Mutual understanding and sisterly communion are fostered by various forms of recreation….

“Bishop O’Brien made a tour of the monastery with Reverend Mother and two of the Sisters. When he returned, he laughingly announced that he did not care to buy the place…”

Let the nuns share gratefully the riches of their prayers and merits with the benefactors who share with them their own spiritual and temporal resources….

Reflection by a sister of the monastery - “Every Dominican nun knows that work can be a source of joy because joy is an effect of love….”

The perseverance and skill which work requires and the benefits it brings foster mental equilibrium and the formation and development of personality….

The nuns are urged more than the rest of the faithful to deny themselves, take up their cross, and bear the death of Jesus in body and soul….

By our profession we dedicate ourselves to God…

“It was during the Office of the Dead that the Sisters first heard the strange noise…”

Because of the effort it demands, work is one of the more common forms of asceticism…

“All the angels looked on in wonder at the procession of nuns hopping through a window…”