About

The Brothers and Sisters of Charity is a Catholic community of singles, celibates, and families called as a monastic and domestic spiritual family into deep love relationships with, and in, Jesus Christ. We also include non-Catholic participants in a way that respects and insures the integrity of the religious beliefs and freedom of all according to the norms of the Catholic Church. Jesus is our primary example; the Scripture is our primary rule; our primary law is love. (Constitution, Chapter 1, Paragraph 1)

We profess the evangelical counsels: poverty, chastity, and obedience in a way proper to our state of life.

Monastic Expression

Members of our Monastic Expression live at Little Portion Hermitage or St. Clare Monastery. They live a more externally intense way of life than our domestic members.

For more information on our Monastic Expression, go to www.littleportion.org.

Domestic Expression

This website, www.bscdomestic.org, is created and maintained by the Domestic Expression of the community.

We are ordinary Christians living in ordinary homes, working ordinary jobs, and raising families. But, we try to do everything we do in an extraordinary way because of our deep gratitude for all the Lord has done for us.

The brothers and sisters are called to live and work in the midst of the secular world in order to instill and offer religious values to all. In this, the brothers and sisters are called to obey Jesus who says to "live in the world without being of the world." (Domestic Directory, Chapter 1, Paragraph 4)

The domestic home is considered a most important unit of the community, for it is here that the nuclear family dwells as the most primary expression of community within the human society and the church. It is here that the day-in and day-out lifestyle of the domestic expression of the Brothers and Sisters of Charity is lived. Next, come the local cell group, the regional, national and international gatherings, chapters and councils. (Domestic Directory, Chapter 1, Paragraph 3)

Currently, we have about 240 domestic members living primarily in the United States.