Dear sisters:

Our renewal is not finished. We certainly feel how extremely important it is that our renewal stems from the power of prayer and the gift of light gushing from it. Christ’s words: Watch and pray! (Mk 14:38) Pray without ceasing! (1. Thess 5:17) applies to us especially today.

If we do not learn the great art of prayer, we will be neither alert nor sensitive to possibilities that the Lord offers to us.

Then, instead of renewal, deformation can occur.

We will give rise to darkness instead of light.

We will keep to the exterior, form and trivialities instead of looping for sense and evaluating God’s things.

Thus we would not become a blessing and would disappoint the expectations of the congregation, the Church and the world.

Dear sisters, I think that the biggest concern should be that the renewal of prayer has a priority and also other tasks are solved in the spirit of prayer and with regard to the real life of prayer.

Mother Vojtěcha’s speech at the opening of the 8th General Chapter, 1976