In accord with these words of St. Catherine of Siena, "God grant that I may always be a lover and proclaimer of truth," the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist fully embrace the charism and spirituality of the Order of Preachers. We seek to first love the Truth, by means of an intense and prayerful study of the Word of God and the truths of our Catholic tradition. Following in the footsteps of our founder, St. Dominic, and the many dynamic saints of the Order, we strive to be authentic proclaimers of the Truth, to a world that is starving for real encounter with the Person of Jesus Christ. For the sake of these two necessary tasks, our lives are committed to the point of heroic self-sacrifice and the shedding of our blood, if God so wills.

Our pattern of life is inextricably bound up with the monastic observances given us by our Dominican tradition. We espouse the common life, cloister, times and places of silence, the choral Divine Office and daily Mass, while wearing the black and white habit so characteristic of the Order of Preachers. These exterior practices are signs of our deeper consecration and pursuit of holiness, fired by a constant zeal for souls. As obedient daughters of the Church, we seek to give fresh vitality to the timeless Dominican spirituality by our love and study of Veritas (or truth)and sharing with others, through preaching and teaching, the abundant fruits of our contemplation.

We are preachers of the Word only because we are first contemplatives of the Word, living intensely the spirituality of our Dominican tradition.