Becoming a missionary sister
The call to Religious Life: a particular vocation
God still calls men and women today to follow Jesus Christ by joining a religious congregation.
This call is made in freedom and often involves the witness of others that God puts in the path of the person He is calling.
After a period of accompaniment, sometimes with the vocation services of a diocese or with a sister, a woman may ask to begin formation in our congregation. The steps are as follows:
The postulate (or prior probation)
This first stage in the congregation should allow for a gradual transition. Its aim is to raise awareness of what God's call is. It is a stage of discernment.
The novitiate
The novitiate is centred on the person of Christ, "it is He whom the novices strive to know and love better". The first year of the novitiate is devoted to religious and spiritual formation.
By living in community, the novices prepare for temporary profession, a step towards definitive consecration.
Juniorate (temporary vows)
The juniorate prepares the sisters to fulfil the mission entrusted to our congregation by the Church. The sisters seek to deepen their theological, spiritual and apostolic formation in order to best accomplish their mission.
Perpetual profession
At the end of the period of temporary vows, the sister makes a definitive commitment through perpetual vows of obedience, chastity and poverty according to the constitutions, an expression of her total gift of self to God, in the congregation.