Is orientated toward the person of Jeus … and the Trinity.

The vitality of our lives as Adorers is focused on the person of Jesus ... and on the Trinity.

The point of departure and the goal of ASC formation is Jesus who, in an act of total self-emptying, freely gave his whole life, even to the last drop of Blood, to reveal the love of the God for each person and the preciousness of every creature. The Adoring and Redeeming love of Jesus is the “beacon” which illumines and sustains the entire journey of an Adorer from the time of entering the Congregation to the time of entering Eternal Life.

Continuous formation as an Adorer is always a response to the invitation of our loving God, which tends to grow with the years, to the point of reaching configuration with Jesus, the Love who is gift.

Therefore, from the very beginning, already with the initial phase of formation called the Aspirancy or Candidacy, formation is grounded in:

• the attraction and beauty of the call which God extends personally to each person to follow his Son Jesus;
• the quality of a response marked by openness to let oneself constantly and ever more profoundly be formed by the Holy Spirit, to the extent of taking on the very sentiments of Jesus toward the Father and toward humanity (ongoing formation);
• the freedom and responsibility of turning over all of one’s BEING to God (holistic formation - forming the person in all dimensions of life);
• a willingness to become and make of oneself a gift to God and to all humanity (apostolic dimension);
• prayer and discernment as a habitual lifestyle.

Each vocation is a con-vocation. Called, each one personally, we are con-voked by God to share in the same spirituality and lifestyle together, which is a manifestation of a particular dimension of the mystery of the life of Christ, his Paschal Mystery.  Community is the place where all the women con-voked (called together) live their own vocation and share the experience of this con-vocation to be “a living image of that divine charity with which this divine blood was shed and of which it was and is sign, expression, measure and pledge” (Maria De Mattias, Preface to the Rule of 1857).

Thus living the call to be an Adorer is a reality that is built and rebuilt every day to become a revelation of the adoring and redeeming love of Jesus. The dynamism and quality of community is found in a faithful listening to and obedience to the Word who calls us together and enables us to live our discipleship, “incarnating Christ’s love for all” (Life Charter, 14) in freedom and responsibility.

Only a free heart is capable of giving itself generously, wholly and for the totality of one’s life. Formation is an ongoing process which helps to accomplish the passages not only from one stage of formation to another but also from a “conditioned freedom to an authentic freedom,” a freedom that facilitates turning one’s life into a gift of love and fidelity.