"To live in community is to live the will of God together, in accordance with orientation of the charismatic gift received by the Founder from God and transmitted to his or her disciples and followers."
Fraternal Life in Community, #45

Our Charism:

Our earnest desire is to live the religious life faithfully, and to teach the Faith correctly and courageously. We strive to do this by offering our lives, our works, and our prayers that our Catholic people, adults as well as children, will come to know their Faith again, what it means to be Catholic, to live a Catholic life.

Words of Our Father Founder, Father William Lloyd Ryan, to our Sisters,
preceding the Community's General Chapter in 2002:

"Your first work, of course, is to become holy, and then your apostolic work."

"Be faithful to everything that the religious life demands...doing everything for God with no secondary motives... "Obedience... Humility... Charity... and Simplicity,
...a very good description of Religious Life"

"... teach the Faith correctly and courageously... also important...because [today] there are lots of difficulties in teaching the Faith correctly... so it does take courage."

"We are living in a time of terrible ignorance of God and the teachings of God among our Catholic people, and outside of the Church as well. But among our Catholic people, we've come into this era of ignorance, which, I don't think, the Church ever saw before, except in people who were just learning about the Faith. But we are in an area established for centuries. The Faith has been here. And yet today we have people who do not know the Faith, do not know what it means to be a Catholic. So there's no question that we're living in this type of time, and it's a time of crisis. Many people seem to abide to it. It will require a great miracle of grace to overcome this sad situation. Now you are a timely part of the miracle, and I hope, please God, that you will become a little bit bigger part of the miracle.

The proper teaching of religion is of such tremendous importance for the salvation of souls that - this is the way I've got it put down - it could be a very worthy intention, extremely pleasing to God for which to consider offering our prayers and works, our lives. I don't mean martyrs, but to give our lives, our work, and our prayers to bring about this miracle, at least to help in bringing about this miracle: that our Catholic people will come, adults as well as children, to know their Faith again, what it means to be a Catholic, to live a Catholic life. And to keep this before us, to mention this in our prayers every day, to say a little prayer every day; we offer our good works to help bring this about...

It's a kind of an imitation of the good work that was done during the French Revolution...You've heard of the martyrdom of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiegne. The Sisters privately, this is privately in their Convent, offered their lives to Our Lord as a sacrifice, to bring an end to this reign of terror and save the lives of their countrymen. They renewed this offering every day... and shortly after [their martyrdoms], the reign of terror came to an end. We don't live in a reign of terror today, but we have a reign of ignorance, a great indifference to salvation. This is a situation that can only be overcome by a special gift from God, a special grace. And it would be a wonderful blessing to us to have even a small way to merit, to help to merit this special grace from God."