The spiritual life is not limited solely to participation in the liturgy, the public prayer of the Church. Besides the liturgical prayer life of the Church, to which the Servants of the Trinity are especially dedicated, it is essential that we also engage in private prayer - both as a community and as individuals.

Devotion to the Most Holy Trinity
We seek to do our utmost to honor the Most Holy Trinity with special love and devotion.  We strive to make God the Father and his Incarnate Son present and, in a sense, visible in our lives by constant conversion under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Some of the ways in which we honor the Trinity as a community are by giving our priorities the title “...of the Trinity”. We solemnly celebrate the feast of the Holy Trinity as the titular feast of the Institute each year. We celebrate the votive Mass and Divine Office of the Holy Trinity on Thursdays when the rubrics allow. And, we recite the chaplet of the Most Holy Trinity (Trisagion) daily. We try to be mindful that everything done for the glory of the Trinity leads us to a life of love and union with the Three Persons in One God.

Devotion to Christ Our High Priest
Since, in the economy of our salvation, God the Father willed to reveal himself to us through the Son by the power of the Holy Spirit, one and the same bond unites us equally to the Blessed Trinity and to Christ Our High Priest.  We take Christ Our High Priest as our model and, following his example of sacrificial and redeeming love, we “stand in the breach,” offering praise and thanksgiving to the Trinity especially on behalf of those who can’t or won’t, and strive to serve as channels of God’s mercy and love to others. 

It is our desire to carry in our heart the mystery of Christ’s passion and to render homage to him who shed his Blood for us, poured out like a libation. We are called to be as intensely compassionate as Christ Our High Priest.

Devotion to Mary, Handmaid of the Lord
As the mother of the Son of God, Mary is the beloved daughter of the Father and the temple of the Holy Spirit. She totally dedicated herself to the mystery of our redemption through her “fiat” which ultimately led her to stand beneath the Cross.  She is the humble servant of the Lord. She is for us an outstanding model of religious consecration since she preceded us in following Christ. She gives us a singular example of how to serve. 

We honor the Blessed Virgin Mary with a sense of filial love and a genuine devotion and we especially venerate her under the title of “Handmaid of the Lord.”  As a community, to express our devotion to her we celebrate a votive Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours in her honor on Saturdays whenever possible.

Particular Community Prayers

For Liturgical Renewal
Because be we bound in a special way to the celebration and promotion of the sacred liturgy and dedicated to helping the faithful enter more deeply in the liturgy, we pray daily for the renewal of the liturgy in the hearts of all the faithful and for a continually deepening sense of reverence and awe in the presence of the Divine Mysteries.

Novenas
As a community we offer novena prayers to prepare for and commemorate certain solemnities during the course of the year, particularly for Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, and Corpus Christi.  

Prayer for Clergy, Religious, and Those in Formation
We make it our particular responsibility and privilege to daily pray for the Holy Father and for bishops, priests, and deacons.  We especially pray for the clergy of the diocese in which our home is located.  We are also mindful in our prayers are those in the religious life.

Prayer for Vocations
Burning with a desire to see God glorified and souls saved, we have a true concern for religious vocations within the Church, especially to our Order.  It is important that each of us strives, both through prayer and through concrete effort, to encourage men and women to open their hearts to accept an invitation from Christ to follow him in a religious vocation. Besides praying daily for the clergy and the religious of the diocese, we also pray daily for all the seminarians studying for the priesthood. 

Readings in Common
Part of our spiritual exercises include excerpts from the Rule of St. Augustine and the Constitutions of the Servants of the Trinity being read during Daily Chapter. We also have reading from a spiritual book during some of our meals.

Days of Retreat and Recollection

Though we immerse ourselves in daily prayer and periods of silence which allow us to focus more on God, spiritual retreats and other times of special recollection are necessary to balance the demands of life, our work, and the apostolate.  We take time each year for a spiritual retreat, normally of eight full days, to renew our spiritual life and to nourish our vocation as Servants of the Trinity. The deepening of fidelity to God and his will refreshed in the annual retreat are strengthen through a monthly day of recollection.