SSVM Come and See Video 2018

SSVM Come and See 2018
A weekend discernment retreat for women ages 18-35 held on March 23-25, 2018 at the House of Studies in Washington, DC (1326 Quincy St NE / Washington, D.C. 20017)
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All quotes taken from the Constitutions of the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará (SSVM)
Music: "Himno a San José" (Hymn to St. Joseph)
Sung by our Sisters in the Province of the Immaculate Conception (USA)
“The religious life, through which we surrender ourselves totally to the service of God, wherein perfection lies, consists principally in the fulfilling of three vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, driven by charity.” SSVM Constitutions 48
“The religious profession is a true consecration by which the religious is something sacred, destined for divine worship, and the property of God.” SSVM Constitutions 52
“We want to be founded in Jesus Christ who has come in the flesh (1 Jn 4:2), and only in Christ, and always in Christ. We want Christ to be in everything and in all, and all of Christ, because the Rock is Christ, and no other foundation can anyone lay (1 Cor 3:11). We want to love and serve Jesus Christ - his Body and his Spirit - and to make others love and serve him. We want to love and serve the physical Body of Christ, the Eucharist, as much as his mystical Body, the Church which is formed by us who must become “other Christs” by our holiness of life, and formed by all men, in whom we see the same Christ, especially the poor, sinners and enemies. We want to be “another humanity added to His own,” we want to be chalices full of Christ that pour out their superabundance on all the rest; we want to show with our lives that Christ lives. We want to love and serve the Spirit of Christ because the Spirit is the soul of the Church, and because anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him (Rom 8:9).” SSVM Constitutions 7
“Only with the most absolute fidelity to the Holy Spirit can we use the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God (Eph 6:17). Our poor breath is only fertile and irresistible if it is in communication with the Spirit of Pentecost. To achieve this disposition of maximum, total and unrestricted docility to the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, we need the Holy Virgin Mary to be the model, the guide and the form of all our actions. For by this means can we say with all the strength of soul and heart, today and always, “Totus Tuus, Maria!” SSVM Constitutions 18-19