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49 The greatest blessing we have received through our vocation
to the SJC is that thereby we are enabled to experience
through Jesus the mercy of God and to transmit it abundantly
to His children. For this blessing we have to praise, adore
and glorify God; we have to thank Him without ceasing; 5
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we have to ask for the graces and gifts of Godís Holy Spirit
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needed for living up to such a call; we have to shed tears of
repentance over our failures and shortcomings in this regard. 7
It is our intimacy and union with Jesus acquired through a
life of prayer in the Spirit that would endow us with the
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power, fortitude and resoluteness required for fulfilling all
the above conditions of an integral life of prayer.
Eucharist-Centred Prayer Life 9

50 It is in the Holy Mass, the sacrament of love, that Jesus is
daily offering praise and glory to His Father. Through the
same sacrament does he make his redeeming grace and mercy
flow into humankind. It being so, the spirituality of the SJC
Sisters should be one centred on and nurtured by the
Sacrament of the Eucharist. 10

51 It is through our daily participation in the Sacrament of the
Altar that our life will become one with the sacrifice of Jesus
so much so that thereby we too become together with him a
living sacrament of Godís glory and an ever-flowing stream
of his mercy to others.
52 The integral yoga or mysticism proper and congenial to the
SJC is Eucharistic mysticism, a mysticism founded on the
yoga of sacrifice, worship and love.
53 The glory of God and the effusion of His mercy, effected by
Jesus in the sacrament of the Eucharist, is continued in the
world through the Sacred Liturgy and other sacraments.
Therefore, we should make ourselves co-operators in the
glory which Jesus offers to the Father and the redemption

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