Secular Servites are asked to do the Secular following each day: Order of the • Study and live by the Rule of Life Servants of • Attend monthly general meetings and community functions Mary • Practice daily prayer: At Servite High o Personal or; School o Liturgical (Mass, morning and evening prayer)or; o Rosary of the Seven Sorrows. • Live by the Charism of the Order: o Fraternity, o Service, o Devotion to our Blessed Mother, Mary. • Support our brothers and sisters in the community through prayer and fellowship • Share and fellowship with other Servite Secular The Foot of the Cross Community gathers Alumni, Communities. Mary at the foot of the Cross Faculty, Parents and Students as Catholic men and women, • Share worldly goods with Secular Order of the united by Christian Baptism. those in need. Servants of Mary The Holy Spirit directs us to 1952 W La Palma serve Christ by drawing upon Anaheim, CA 92801 the inspiration and example of Contact Tim Smith Phone: (714) 774-7575 x1430 Mary at the foot of the cross of Fax: (714) 774-1404 her son, Jesus Christ, in the [email protected] Order of Servants of Mary. For Prayer Requests email: [email protected] For information on open positions or to submit your resume, please visit our Web site at: www.lucernepublishing.com WHO ARE THE MINISTRIES OF THE The special vocation of lay persons is to seek SECULAR SERVITES? God and minister God's love in the "temporal SECULAR COMMUNITY order," in between taking care of the household The Secular Order of the Servants of chores and the demands of employment, The Foot of the Cross Community school, social and familial obligations. Mary (Servite Secular Order) is a supports and participates in the following Catholic organization of lay men and ministries: women plus diocesan priests living their Laypersons in the Church are "busy about Christian faith in the context of the many things" and it is in the tasks of every day § Support Servite Missions world. life that the laity have the opportunities to evangelize and bring about the kingdom of § Retreat Ministry (Kairos, Cursillo) The Secular Servite vocation is a God. Lay spirituality is founded on the struggle § Support Vocations Council, special calling within the Church. The to live the Gospel of Jesus in the "thick" of life. vocation finds its root in baptismal provide and distribute literature consecration and with its acceptance, The call to live the Gospel within the temporal § Ministry to the Infirm; the Secular Servites commit order or the world is the same call to encounter themselves to bring to fulfillment the Jesus wherever one is in life. Laypersons are § Eucharistic Ministry to evangelical commandment to love. challenged to proclaim the Gospel in the midst of their lives, within the world where so many of Retirement Homes; They strive toward holiness according their concerns are directed. It is in the world § Hospice Visitations; to the spirituality of the Servite Order, where God calls lay persons to minister and to following the directives of their Rule of encounter the loving presence of God. § Service to the Local Community Life. (Mary’s House, Isaiah’s House) § Prison Ministry § Bereavement § Prayer Ministry .