About the Servants

Community Life

Sisterhood is our Gift

We live the common life. Building strong sisterly relationships with one another is our constant striving. We believe that intimate relationships are the foundation of our community. It is in our commitment to community from which our ministry will flow.

Although we are to be a body committed to the active ministry of the Church, we believe that we will be defined, not so much by the ministry we undertake, but rather by the quality of the life that we will live together. Before we will be able to do anything worthwhile for the Lord together, we will have to be something good together.
- (Fr. Bob Bedard, We are called to be Companions of the Cross, 1994)

THE HEART OF OUR MISSION - EVANGELIZATION

What is Evangelization? The challenge of a dynamic evangelization is two-fold. First, it requires our decision to say ‘yes’ to being in relationship with Jesus. The second challenge flows from the first. When we say ‘yes’ the decision must be to commit daily to a relationship that is personal. Fr. Bob speaks of this same commitment:

From the Foundress

I want to share with you the call I received to build a sisterhood, one that incarnates the spirituality and the way of life of the Companions of the Cross. It has been since 2003 that I heard and responded to this call. And, as our community continues to grow and discern its way of life, I remain obedient to it.

We are committed to live and spread the message of evangelization as Fr. Bob Bedard, our Spiritual Father, envisions. The message is simple: God loves us, and He sent His Son to die for our sins to prove it. He wants everyone to know it.

In response, the Lord wants us to follow the Gospel, to choose to be in an intimate and close relationship with Him. I have made that personal choice myself and the experience when I gave Him my total "yes" was life changing. There is no experience that is more real and more tangible than God's friendship.