The solemn community liturgy and prayer meetings are the nourishment in the spiritual journey always emphasizing the devotion to the Holy Spirit.

Some example of solemn liturgies

 

At the end of the day the recitation of Hail Holy Queen (Salve Regina) and the blessing of the Superior Mother

 

The congregation has it's own customary tradition of rites that they repeat on occasion of special liturgical anniversaries. For example:

 In the feast of Epiphany the statue of the Child Jesus is born in procession inside the monastery,while the sisters sing,pray and read some writing by Mons Pio on the mystery of the Incarnation.

 

 

The statue is carried from the church into the novitiate’s chapel and risen into the mothers’ chapel,at the end it is return to the church,where the rite concludes with the sisters kissing the child statue.

 

The Child's statue in the novitiate's chapel and in the Mothers chapel: at the conclusion of the procession the Mother offers the Child to the Sister's Kiss.

 

In the feast of the Assumption (which it is also the anniversary of Father Pio’s death).The sisters,after praying at the Founder’s tomb,head off in procession across the garden to the little grotto of our Lady of Lourdes.A brazier is lit at the feet of our lady. Here every sisters throws a letter, written before in which they have expressed their wishes.

 

 

The prayer is accompanied by work: the support of old ladies, the work in the monastery,the work in the field.

The Sisters in the laboratory: pictures from the distant and the recent past

 

Works in the fields in 1880 and a century after

 

Fruits picking and the preparation of the vegetable

 

 
 
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