God will take care of you, if you remain one. Whatever else they do, and whatever other responsibilities they may assume this is the primary goal in life, as religious, to become holy. In spite of all the re-interpretation of religious life in the past generation, Mother Teresa never wavered in her conviction that religious are first and mainly and primarily to become holy. Mother Teresa did not leave this exhortation in thin air. She spelt out in the most uncompromising terms how religious are to become holy.
Prayer is the foundation for sanctity.
So the list of required practices of piety go on. But Mother Teresa left no doubt about the primacy of prayer in the religious life. If a sister has missed any community prayer for some reason, she must make up for it. As one came to know Mother Teresa more personally, one learned that she had no illusions about the practicality of religious life. Many years of working with her and her community have made one thing clear.