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First and foremost, Dominican life is centred on our being followers of Jesus Christ and preachers of the Gospel, living together in community, faithful to the traditions of the Order. Following the Rule of St Augustine and guided by the Constitutions of the Congregation, we seek to live out more fully our baptismal calling, faithful to our vow of obedience, and a life of poverty and chastity. Our common life is centred on our Lord's command to love God and one another.

Dominican life is a particular way of becoming the person God is calling you to be. We do this in the company of our sisters and brothers in the Order, inspired by the example of our Dominican saints. We are guided by those who have gone before us, and offer us the example of their religious lives; those who have become, through the joys and sorrows of their own religious lives, the persons God called them to be. We are not trying to become another St Dominic, St Catherine or St Thomas. We strive for human freedom, following the example of Christ, giving to others what we have received through our relationship with God. Dominican spirituality values and builds on a person's individual personality.

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'We are sent out on our apostolate by the community and return to our communities to be refreshed by the prayers and goodwill of the community. We need to share our faith and doubts with each other. In wrestling with each other we make sense of who we are, and what we are called to be in the light of the Gospel. Our community life together must be a prayerful life, with a silence to listen to God and to each other. Central to learning to think, therefore, is discovering how to live with others, how to listen to others, and how to learn from them. It can be difficult to live with those who are different, but this is what our cross can be all about. Community life, when lived well, will make us who we are called to be.'