 This is the power of being a part of an authentic community. We're not about words. This isn't a club This is a charism. This is a place where we Strive to be saints in the power of God through the power of God by the power of God But nonetheless we strive and we do everything possible To live the contemplative life, which is a life of a ceaseless and prayer and the ceaseless Is the practice of self-giving and self-denial? Self-denial is the denial of the flesh of things that we want to do in our lower nature But that is not good for us and that we may not want to do that are better for us, but we strive