Community is the heart of the Trinity, and it is the heart of our vocation, as religious.
To revitalize community life, we must do the work and recommit ourselves to the Gospel mandate to love one another. We must increase our awareness and sensitivity to the challenges of our current reality, particularly of being older and having a different life style. Community life is the same, in that it is still based on Gospel. But it is also different, because we are different. 
Community is a picture of a place, society and state in which every person feel that she is there as part of alliance. Each person is precious, involved in building the alliance into a new society. Community as place, means the atmosphere created to build a life together that is animated by prayer and fasting, to testify about the spirit of Jesus who let Himself be guided by the image of the kingdom of God.
As part of the society of life, we are called to be responsible jointly to create a lively atmosphere in the community. Atmosphere that allows each person develops, mutual building and defending each other. Sharing spirit that encourage us to create atmosphere of being at home, enjoy good relationship as sisters and reconciled. We take Life of prayer and the Eucharist as our center of life.
The presence of each individual is precious, giving color in the community. Harmonious life is a longing for everybody to create “a new heaven and a new earth”. “Our religious community is rooted in the history of God and with human being”.
We realize that we human beings are created with various differences hence we experience fight, tension, lack of peace, saturation, etc. But God created us special, in His image and equal. With the diversity of life we become beautiful, with different ideas can be a way to broaden horizons. Differences make us think that we need different perspectives to find a better solution.
If we focus on the differences and egocentricity we fight, while if we focus on the good things of differences, we become strong. The differences create us to strive more to learn to love others, through the differences we learn new things and perspectives. Wise in the face of difference is a real step to be fair, respect, love, gratitude, knowing yourself and others.
The differences are reconciled and united by God in the community. As the Congregation living in God's call, we create fineness, richness, diversity, art and valuable. The process of building community needs long time, personal maturity, clarity of mind and heart, humility, openness, courage to face the challenges and take the risk, action, creativity, confidence, responsibility, commitment as people who live in God's call.
God, I am here to serve.
Let us…… awake community with gladness, see the community in a different way, wake community with Faith, Hope, Love and Joy.
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