Our Community
Incarnate Word Sisters
At the core of the Incarnate Word community are women religious who choose to express their commitment to Christ in the Church through the profession of vows of evangelical chastity, evangelical poverty, and evangelical obedience.
Through the vow of evangelical chastity, the Sisters receive the gift of the Holy Spirit to live a life committed to the preferential love of God and to God's universal concerns.
The vow of evangelical poverty calls the Sisters to live the spirit of poverty of Christ who emptied himself for all.
Through the vow of evangelical obedience, the Sisters make visible the loving relationship of the Incarnate Word with the Father.
Inspired by Mary’s responsiveness to the Father’s will and her son’s example of trusting obedience to that will, the Sisters live their obedience when the Congregation sends them in ministry to God’s people.
Like all Christians, the Sisters receive their first call from God on the day of their baptism, but as women religious, they also choose to commit themselves to the service of Christ in the Church through public witness and active ministries of service to others.