Our life is contemplative and apostolic.
Contemplative life demands that we faithfully receive the light coming from God and let it transform our intelligence and heart. It demands a silent encounter with Christ and, through Christ, with the Father, as well as a common liturgy offered by the brothers on behalf of the Church. As Pope Francis notes, recovering a contemplative spirit “can help us to realize ever anew that we have been entrusted with a treasure which makes us more human and helps us to lead a new life. There is nothing more precious which we can give to others” (Evangelii Gaudium, #264)
Desiring to manifest Christ as Wisdom and to lead others to be attracted by His light, the brothers maintain for themselves a constant formation that they offer to all those willing to receive it. As such, they preach retreats, facilitate youth groups and are especially attentive to those who have not discovered Christ as our hope. Only His Light and Love can “illuminate a world grown dim and give us the courage needed to keep living and working” (Deus Caritas Est, #39).
In response to the urgent desire of Saint John Paul II for all to rediscover the dignity of the human intelligence (and of the person as a whole), the brothers take up the “search for ultimate truth [that] seems often to be neglected” (Fides et Ratio, #5). Through a realistic philosophy and a Thomistic theology at the service of the Tradition of the Church, we dispose our intelligence to receive the Word of God in all its depth but also to a true encounter with humanity.