The Ascetic Journey: A Way to Love in the Humility and Obscurity of the Cross

The great mystical ideal of the “Crucified Love” attracts the Canossians and determines their Vocation. Their life demands, however, an Ascetic path that may conduct them to the realization of this ideal. St. Magdalene indicates the way that Christ has traced for them: IT IS THE GREATEST LOVE LIVED IN THE HUMILITY AND OBSCURITY OF THE CROSS.

The Vow of POVERTY
· Pushes them to detach their lives from the search of the wealth and helps them to identify in Christ Crucified who makes himself servant, choosing to stay in the side of the poor.

The Vow of CHASTITY
· Involves a path of maturation in the love that makes free in the heart and capable of progressive detachment from our own family, from all selfish forms of friendship, of affective need and from non-coherent behaviors with their celibate choice.

The Vow of OBEDIENCE
· Directs all their lives to privilege the Will of the Father.