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Meet on a regular basis to discuss the fruits of their prayer life and be offered guidance.

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This is a guided method of prayerfully reviewing the events of the day, to awaken one's inner sensitivity to one's own actions, desires, and spiritual state, through each moment reviewed.

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Ignatius declared: "The goal of our life is to live with God forever. God who loves us, gave us life. Our own response of love allows God's life to flow into us without limit... Our only desire and our one choice should be this: I want and I choose what better leads to the deepening of God's life in me."

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all things, to love and to serve' was a motto

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Spirituality can be, and has been, described as a spirituality of finding God's will for better decision making.

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Carmel stands for the intimate encounter which God brings about between the person and God in the midst of all that is most ordinary in life.

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Take inspiration from Elijah, Mary, and the saints of Carmel.

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Prayer, community-building, and service are key to their way of life.

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Carmelites seek to be contemplatives: God-seekers, friends of God who are open to God's transforming action in our lives.

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the Rule of Saint Albert is the text which all Carmelites take as the foundation for their way of life.

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The third pillar of Franciscan life is Penance. Penance is on-going, continuous conversion.

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Along with Minority, Fraternity is essential to Franciscan life. Minority safeguards and effects Fraternity.

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The humility and poverty of the Incarnation of Jesus is the pattern and model for Franciscan life (Imitation of Christ), theology (Primacy of Christ) and its approach to all creation.

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It is Christo-centric focusing primarily on the Incarnate Jesus.

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is rooted in the general Judeo-Christian, Roman Catholic and Biblical traditions. It is rooted in the general Trinitarian theology of the Church.

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The Rule of St. Benedict establishes a way of life rooted in the Gospel and grounded in the scriptural principles of charity, humility, stability, and faithfulness. It sets forth an outline for Christian discipleship drawn from the heart of Jesus’ ministry.

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This is not a spirituality that requires a departure from everyday life, but rather a way of being that embraces and becomes fully engaged in the holiness that permeates our daily existence and the call to follow Christ in all that we do.

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The Rule of Benedictine (RB) constitutes the basic guide for thousands of Christians who are committed to the monastic movement.

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Carry on a monastic tradition that stems from the origins of the Christian monastic movement in the late third century.

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for the Desert Fathers was primarily the practice of "interior silence and continual prayer."

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D. Monast. Practice 1) Withdrawal from Society

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D. Monast. Practice 1) Withdrawal from Society

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They doubted that religion and politics could ever produce a truly Christian society. For them, the only Christian society was spiritual.

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The desert mothers and fathers are remarkable for their daily practice of seeking to “love as God loves.”

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These women lived in the fourth and fifth centuries, C.E. Their way of life came into being after Christianity had become legal and Christians were no longer under persecution.

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Native Egyptians, mostly from the poorer classes, but others, from all parts of the Roman world, included men of high rank and high intelligence.