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Our Spirit & Spirituality
Click here to read the current issue of Finding God in All Things: Everyday Theology.Click here for archived issues of Finding God in All Things: Everyday Theology. Our spirit and spirituality are based on the charism of the founder, Jean Pierre Medaille, S.J., and on the faithful response of the first Sisters of Saint Joseph to the action of the Holy Spirit in their lives. We are led by the Holy Spirit to identification with Jesus in his self-emptying obedience, so that, drawn ever more fully into the mystery of his death and resurrection, we may die to self and live in God and for others. Our spirituality is characterized by a deep relationship with the person of the Holy Trinity and with Jesus, Mary and Joseph. We honor the Father by desiring always to respond to the gift of life, the Son, by seeking to imitate his humility and self-surrender, and the Holy Spirit by trying to realize and express God's love in our lives. As far as possible, we imitate Jesus in his untiring zeal to bring about the kingdom of God, Mary in her constant fidelity to the Holy Spirit, and Joseph in the loving manner of his service to others. Father Medaille urges us to resist complacency and, open to the Holy Spirit, always to move toward closer union with God and neighbor and toward greater fidelity to the spirit and spirituality of the Congregation. The life and works of our Congregation are directed to a single end: The union of ourselves and of all people with God and with one another in and through Christ Jesus. Our mission as Sisters of Saint Joseph is the purpose for which the Congregation exists: we live and work that all people may be united with God and with one another. It is the mission of Jesus himself, the same mission which continues to unfold in the Church "That all may be one as you, Father, are in me, and I in you; I pray that they may be one in us . . . " (John 17:21) In order to fulfill this mission, we are willing to be led by the Holy Spirit to undertake, in accordance with our tradition, works which respond to the needs of the times. We encourage and assist those who desire to follow Christ more closely, and we work with others to alleviate the conditions which cause ignorance, poverty, suffering and oppression.

Our Spirit & Spirituality

Click here to read the current issue of Finding God in All Things: Everyday Theology.Click here for archived issues of Finding God in All Things: Everyday Theology.

Our spirit and spirituality are based on the charism of the founder, Jean Pierre Medaille, S.J., and on the faithful response of the first Sisters of Saint Joseph to the action of the Holy Spirit in their lives.

We are led by the Holy Spirit to identification with Jesus in his self-emptying obedience, so that, drawn ever more fully into the mystery of his death and resurrection, we may die to self and live in God and for others.

Our spirituality is characterized by a deep relationship with the person of the Holy Trinity and with Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

We honor the Father by desiring always to respond to the gift of life, the Son, by seeking to imitate his humility and self-surrender, and the Holy Spirit by trying to realize and express God's love in our lives.

As far as possible, we imitate Jesus in his untiring zeal to bring about the kingdom of God, Mary in her constant fidelity to the Holy Spirit, and Joseph in the loving manner of his service to others.

Father Medaille urges us to resist complacency and, open to the Holy Spirit, always to move toward closer union with God and neighbor and toward greater fidelity to the spirit and spirituality of the Congregation.

The life and works of our Congregation are directed to a single end: The union of ourselves and of all people with God and with one another in and through Christ Jesus.

Our mission as Sisters of Saint Joseph is the purpose for which the Congregation exists: we live and work that all people may be united with God and with one another. It is the mission of Jesus himself, the same mission which continues to unfold in the Church "That all may be one as you, Father, are in me, and I in you; I pray that they may be one in us . . . " (John 17:21)

In order to fulfill this mission, we are willing to be led by the Holy Spirit to undertake, in accordance with our tradition, works which respond to the needs of the times. We encourage and assist those who desire to follow Christ more closely, and we work with others to alleviate the conditions which cause ignorance, poverty, suffering and oppression.