What is your vision?
What do you want your life to be?
How will the world be better for your passing through?
Ask yourself, does God call you to join us in our mission?
We are the Norbertines of New Mexico, men of an ancient order living a life that is ever new.
There are a few men who are chosen to spend themselves in God's service; to discover the joy of being the feet, the hands, and mouth of God on earth, as Jesus illustrated for us two thousand years ago.
Jesus said, "Believe me, anyone who gives up his home, wife, brothers, parents, or children because of the kingdom of God will certainly receive many times as much in this life and will receive eternal life in the world to come."
(Luke 18:29-30)
There are a few men who are chosen to live close to God in a way only the celibate can know. And in that special relationship with God, they live together, pray together, and work together. They try to live as the early Christians did when there were few enough to form a small community.
All the believers kept meeting together, and they shared everything with each other. They sold their property and other possessions and distributed the money to those who needed it. The believers had a single purpose and went to the temple every day. They were joyful and with simpleness of heart, they ate at each other's homes and shared their food.
(Acts 2:44-46 )
We are apostles of Jesus Christ just as the first apostles were. We minister to a world that needs salvation and a renewal of the vision Saint Peter spoke of when he quoted the Prophet Joel:
In the last days, God says, "I will pour my Spirit on everyone. Your sons and daughters will speak what God has revealed. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams. In those days I will pour my Spirit on my servants, on both men and women. They will speak what God has revealed."
(Acts 2:17-18)
OUR MISSION STATEMENT
The Risen Christ sends us as apostles to witness the reality and the power of a Christian community of faith by living a simple, communal life according to the rule of Augustine and the ancient traditions of the Order of Prémontré, and by loving service to the Church of Santa Fe, and especially to its poor and needy.