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14. The early members of our community, appropriating our
Founderís religious vision and style of life centred on the
service of the abandoned, lived in mutual love, sisterliness
and prayer. It is their history and tradition that we have to
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faithfully preserve and resourcefully promote. The
following were the important means they employed for
enhancing the spiritual patrimony of the Founding Father as
well as the foundational charism of the institute: a life of
prayer centred on Eucharistic worship and meditation; zeal
in matters regarding the praise and glory of God; submission
to authority; a family-spirit replete with mutual love and co-
operation; an evangelical sensibility to serve the poor and
the orphaned, seeing Jesus himself in them; hard life; spirit
of sacrifice; hospitality; filial devotion to St. Joseph, a perfect
model of all the above-said virtues.

15 ì To Live in the Service of His Glory and Mercyî is the very
warp and woof of the SJC religious charism (The Yoga of
Divine Glory and the Dasyam of Godís Mercy). It being so,
we are endowed thereby with the grace and opportunities
needed for fulfilling the Gospel injunction of loving and
serving God and oneís neighbour. The motto of the St.
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Josephís Congregation, namely, Love and Serve, is but a
succinct expression of it.

St. Joseph - The Patron and Model of the SJC
16ß1 St. Joseph is the common patron of our Congregation. As his
daughters, we are specially bound to follow a style of
religious life and service that is illumined and nurtured by
the spirituality of this holy Father of ours. His virtuous life
of total submission to the will of God in everything was but
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a constant praise of Godís glory and a perfect holocaust of
love. His heart, always immersed in the presence of God
together with Jesus and Mary, was replete with the experience
of Godís mercy. He considered it a most blessed divine
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