Free for God Alone
In this series of blog posts, we explain and illustrate our monastic life through pictures of everyday life as a cloistered Dominican Nun, whose life is “free for God alone.”
“In silence and stillness, let them earnestly seek the face of the Lord and never cease making intercession with the God of our salvation that all men and women might be saved.”
-Book of Constitutions of the Nuns
of the Order of Preachers
The life of a Dominican nun is strongly marked by the apostolic zeal of our father, St. Dominic. Our lives are meant to be a form of preaching in themselves, as we give witness that a life entirely devoted to seeking the face of God is something worth pursuing. Yet even within that pursuit of God, the rest of the world is never forgotten in our prayer. As St. Augustine famously put it, “I don’t want to be saved without you!” In our monastery, one of the ways in which we “never cease making intercession” is through the Adoring Rosary (the rosary prayed in adoration before Our Lord in the monstrance) which we keep throughout the day and through the night on some nights. This means that, all day, every day, and all night on some nights, there is always a sister in choir, praying and interceding before our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.
