Josephite Spirituality

We were founded with vision and courage
 precisely to undertake a new experiment,
 to live as religious had not lived before
 and to work under conditions
 that had not been experienced before.
The first Sisters of St Joseph sensed the spirit of a new world
in a way that has left its mark
 on the history of Australia and New Zealand.  
We who have taken up the task of the first Sisters of St Joseph
must press on into each age as it unfolds
 in a like spirit of daring,
strong in our commitment to love.
Drawing on the past, we will never take refuge in the past,
but together, in partnership with the Holy Spirit,
we will confront the world of the future fearlessly,
to bend that future to the dynamic purpose of the Creator.

(Dominic Morris cp First Draft Constitutions 1969)