 As of 2018, it has 137 members.In 1996 Pope John Paul II wrote Apostolic Exhortation "Vita Consecrata", calling for a renewal of religious life.Inspired by his words, Mother Mary Assumpta Long, former superior of the Nashville-based Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia, and three other Sisters of the community, Sr. Joseph Andrew Bogdanowicz, Sr. Mary Samuel Handwerker and Sr. John Dominic Rasmussen, set off to "undertake a new initiative".