Living Stones Covenant
Recognizing that we are, in virtue of our baptism and confirmation, already members of the royal priesthood of Christ (1 Pet. 2:9), we are making a covenant within this household to enter into serious spiritual formation and discernment. We embrace this agreement as an important step toward our participation in the ministerial priesthood of Jesus Christ or life as a consecrated brother in the Catholic Church.
Prayer Life
Developing good habits with regard to daily prayer is the first and perhaps the most important task of a man called to the Living Stones Household. We acknowledge that our basic Christian formation as men committed to Jesus Christ abides in the conviction that we bear integrity as sons of the Father (John 5:19; 15:11). Therefore, we are committed each day to a time of personal prayer, reading of sacred Scripture, and praise and adoration of God, along with intercession for the Church and for each other. Through this we come to know the Lord God whom we serve, and to love each other as he commanded. As members of a Church continually at prayer, and with a desire to join with her in this sacrifice, we commit ourselves to pray the Liturgy of the Hours, the “prayer of the Church,” communally and privately, as is befitting the way of life of one called to priesthood or consecrated life. We commit ourselves to participate in the Mass as a household each week and individually on the remaining days of the week.