Jesus is our primary example; the Scripture is our primary rule; our primary law is love.
Guided by official Catholic teachings on ecumenism and interfaith relations, we integrate all religions from a uniquely Christian base, all Christian faiths from a uniquely Catholic base, and all religious and monastic traditions from a uniquely Franciscan base. Franciscanism is our mother, but we are a child born from this heritage that is unique and new.
On other levels, we integrate the charismatic and contemplative spiritualities, socio-eremitical solitude and cenobitical community, and a primary call to contemplative community with a mandate from the gospel to the apostolic action of the evangelical life.