Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love.

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.

Look into this mirror [which is Christ] every day, O queen, spouse of Jesus Christ, and continually examine your face in it, so that in this way you may adorn yourself completely, inwardly and outwardly... In this mirror shine blessed poverty, holy humility, and charity beyond words.

Love the Immaculata, and She will make you happy!

Hold back nothing of yourselves for yourselves, that He who gives Himself totally to you may receive you totally.

Mental prayer, in my opinion, is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us.

Embodying the Charism Today

We believe that the spiritual genius of two great men and two great women - Francis and Clare, Maximilian and Therese - meet in their desire to 'be Love in the heart of the Church': a Love that welcomes and 'repairs,' a love that hopes, waits, loves, forgives, renews. A love that never grows weary, because it is divine, and makes the steppe bloom again, makes the desert and the parched land leap for joy (cf. Is 35:1). Their love was and is 'motherhood' - a caress of God, a smile of light... still today, upon suffering humanity. And we would wish... we would wish to carry forward their spirit and their presence. However humbly, we desire to live the full beauty of femininity - and masculinity - open to Grace, given to the Immaculate, so that with Her and like Her it may become spiritual motherhood-fatherhood, fruitful contemplation in Christ, a welcoming embrace within the 'home' of a heart wholly consecrated by the Spirit. Our ideal is the Virgin of Nazareth: humble and trusting openness to the word of the Father, to the gift of the Spirit, in unconditional adherence to the mission of the Son.