Who are the Associates of the Daughters of the Cross?
| Associates of the Daughters of the Cross are men and women who are invited to live their call to holiness by journeying with the Daughters of the Cross and Blessed Marie Thérèse in the footsteps of Christ. Associates can be found in Jarrow, Dublin, Much Hadham, California, Belgium, India and Pakistan. Currently there are about 60 Associates attached to the English Province. | |
"We joined the Associates to share in the spirituality and mission of the Daughters of the Cross ....It's helped us to understand better our spiritual role in this life and how to apply our gifts on a daily basis. As members we've come to know God better, to love him more, and to recognise him in the weak and most suffering." |
Associates in Much Hadham receiving their membership cross |
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Californian Associates being received by Sr Veronica |
Californian Associates with Sr Veronica |
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Dublin Associates with Sisters Veronica and Una.
The First Associates
Number 8 Borough Road, Jarrow may seem an unlikely setting for the making of history, but then God is unpredictable and his ways inscrutable.
Sr Jane and friends looking at a photo album of the early Associates
Friends and colleagues of the Sisters have an affection for them and an interest in their work. However, in Jarrow there were 12 people, married and unmarried men and women, who wanted something more than that. They recognized that there was a spiritual foundation to the the Sisters' apostolic tasks, and they wanted to build their own lives on that foundation. The Constitutions of the Congregation embody the charism of the Foundress, Mère Marie Thérèse. That charism and spirituality of the Daughters of the Cross can be shared by those who long to deepen their awareness of God's presence in their homes, work places and indeed the world. Thus the Associates of the Daughters of the Cross came into being on September 6th 1987 in the convent in Jarrow.