In our work, we imitate the life of the Holy Family at Nazareth, which was apostolic, both in the prayer which spanned the breadth of the world’s needs, and in external service. Just as Our Lady taught the Child Jesus at the home of Nazareth, so our apostolic service flows from our life with Jesus and Mary, and often includes the teaching of the faith. We seek to make our own the concerns of Jesus and Mary: We must be about our Father’s business. As in Our Lady’s Visitation, we seek to carry Jesus to those to whom we are sent, be it our Sisters in the convent or those outside the convent.
Since our life is devoted first of all to the Sacred Liturgy and to the interior life, the time we are able to dedicate to apostolic service is limited and, for that reason, the Filiæ Laboris Mariæ are fittingly called “semi-contemplative.”