Sisters of Life

Sisters of Life

Sr. Veronica Mary, S.V.

Vocation Director

Address: 198 Hollywood Avenue, Bronx, NY 10465

Phone: 718-863-2264

Website: http://www.sistersoflife.org/

The Sisters of Life is a contemplative/active religious community of women founded in 1991 by John Cardinal O’Connor for the protection and enhancement of the sacredness of every human life. The heart of the community is the Eucharistic Lord, through Whom their prayer is made, in Whom their common life is found and from Whom their apostolate is born.

Reverence and gratitude for the unique and unrepeatable gift of each human life made in the image and likeness of God fuels the prayer of each Sister, her first mission in building the Kingdom of God and the “culture of life.” Daily the Sisters come together for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, to chant the Divine Office and to pray a Eucharistic Holy Hour and the Rosary.

A rich, joyful and generous common life is essential to the Sisters of Life, for in the words of their Founder, “ a call to the Sisters of Life is a call to holiness through community.” The charism of reverence for each human life is first lived between the Sisters, who accept the call to common life with grateful enthusiasm and strive to live it both as a model for family life and a witness to those served in the apostolate.

The Sisters of Life aim to employ all their gifts of nature and grace in the apostolate, that nothing of the gift of life, and no one to whom it has been given, should be lost. The Sisters welcome pregnant guests in need to live with them in the “Holy Respite” of one of their convents, facilitate “The Nurturing Network,” a national, phone-based mission to pregnant women in need of practical assistance, invite those who have suffered abortion to Sacramental healing through day and weekend retreats of Hope and Healing, operate a life-issues library, direct the New York Archdiocesan Family Life/ Respect Life Office and evangelize on the sacredness of human life throughout the nation.