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About
Our Name
Jesus said, "Abide in me as I abide in you...because
apart from me you can do nothing." We seek to be Sisters in Jesus
the Lord because Christ, longing for our total surrender, urges
us to live in Him. We want to make this longing of His a
constant reality in our lives. We desire to be totally consumed in our
Lord’s will, always remembering that without Him we can do nothing.
The Latin version of our name,
Canonissae in Jesu Domino, literally translates as Canonesses in
Jesus the Lord. Traditionally, the term canonesses has been
used to refer to women who are connected to a parish and live an organized
religious life according to a rule, or canon. The first canonesses
followed the Rule of St. Augustine, the earliest rule for women religious
in the western Church.
Sacred Scripture gives us an example of faithful prayer in the temple, and
the fruits of it. "And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanu-el, of the tribe of Asher… She did not depart from the temple,
worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day (Luke 2:36-37).
Eucharist Adoration in Vladivostok, Russia, our first
mission destination Following the Rule of St. Augustine
allows us to look back to the earliest roots of religious life, but with
the eyes of the twenty-first-century Church, so as not to discard that
which Holy Mother Church has taught us in the centuries since St.
Augustine. We cherish the legacy of the charisms of many of the early
twentieth-century missionary groups of the U.S. and Europe, seeking to
learn from their successes as well as their failures and experiences. If, with the help of
the Holy Spirit, we have our roots
firmly planted in tradition, we will blossom in the present time and bear
much fruit in the future, in order that “the life consecrated to God
corresponds always more perfectly to the desires of the Divine Heart”
(Pope John XXIII, Letter to Women Religious, 2 July 1962).
Saint
Augustine of Hippo, whose Rule we follow
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Abide in me as I abide in you . . . because apart from me you can do
nothing.
John 15: 4-5
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Surrender to me and I will do everything for you
from the Liturgy of
the Hours
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And
there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanu-el, of the tribe of
Asher… She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and
prayer night and day.
Luke 2:36-37
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