The life St. Teresa set up for her daughters strikes a healthy balance between prayer, both personal and communal, and manual labor ~ our daily work; and between solitude and community life. She believed that the best training for generosity with the Lord Jesus in prayer is the generosity we practice in serving our sisters. We are like hermits, but we live in the context of community: we pray together, we take our meals together, and we recreate together each day in a true spirit of sisterly joy. We work in silence, but whatever we do whether domestic duties such as cooking the meals, cleaning the monastery, doing the laundry, or preparing the chapel for worship; everything is a service of love. It makes us mindful of the needs of others and trains us in caring and in the love and service of one another, striving to live faithfully the Gospel of Jesus Christ ~ for Him and in union with Him.

We find God’s Will in our Rule of life and the order of our day, in the directives of our superiors, in the “quiet whisper” of silent prayer in loving communion with our Blessed Lord, and living in God’s will means living in joy and peace of heart.

"In watchful waiting for the Lord\'s return, the cloister becomes a response to the absolute love of God for his creature and the fulfilment of his eternal desire to welcome the creature into the mystery of intimacy with the Word, who gave himself as Bridegroom in the Eucharist (14) and remains in the tabernacle as the heart of full communion with him, drawing to himself the entire life of the cloistered nun in order to offer it constantly to the Father (cf. Heb 7:25)." (Verbi Sponsa)