IS GOD CALLING YOU?
Is God calling you to a life of service, of dedication? Is God calling you to a life of commitment? Is God calling you to a deeper relationship?
THE COMMUNITY OF OUR SAVIOUR
WHO ARE WE?
The brothers and sisters of the Community of Our Saviour are a religious order of men and women who dedicate their lives to God. We are a dispersed order living in the world either in communities of two or more or as separate individuals, each with their own particular vocation. Each community has its own vocation and its own government.
Prayer is central to our lives; our brothers and sisters celebrate the liturgy together and work together on pastoral activities.
God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is the center of our order, the vows that we make are based on all the holy founders of ancient orders (St. Basil, St. Martin, St. Benedict, St. Francis and St. Clare, St. Dominic and St. Teresa of Avila) that have given us, each in their own way, guidelines to allow us to trace our own path after them. Jesus invited his disciples to live as brothers, united by the same love of the Father. Taking up this evangelical counsel, the religious who preceded us and of which we are the heirs have always paid particular attention to this fraternal bond in their rule of life.
Who better than a community and individual brothers and sisters that choose to live daily the experience of fraternal love through prayer, sharing, forgiveness and joy, and who will proclaim the presence of the love of God the Father to this waiting world? How can we transmit the joy of the Gospel to the men and women of our time caught in situations of generational, identity and cultural conflicts, if not by living ourselves as brothers and sisters as Christ asks of us?
To live and share this, our charism draws from the source of the Word of God and the Tradition of the Church, because both show us Christ and give us to taste God's love (in meditation on the Scriptures, Eucharistic adoration, community prayer, for example). For this too, we work, pray, welcome, in the city where God sends us, hands outstretched towards the other who works, lives and prays beside us. In this other, we learn to recognize God who gives Himself to us. We often have to accept at the same time seemingly contradictory elements such as silence and welcome, work and prayer, solitude and community life.
The order is open to any person 18 years old or older who is an active member of any religious jurisdiction or church with valid Apostolic Succession.
For further information contact
Formation Director
Community of Our Saviour
St. Francis of Assisi Anglican Church
199 North Main Street, Jonesboro, Georgia 30236
or call 770 472-8888