As an
inquirer,
you have many opportunities to get to know more about us.
Besides meeting regularly with the Vocation Director, you
are invited to come to community celebrations, to share
prayer, meals, and conversation with us, and to visit us
in our places of ministry. While we are getting to know
you, you are getting to know us and together we are discerning
your call as we journey in faith.
As a candidate,
you have the opportunity to enjoy the hospitality and
friendship of the sisters. As you continue to discern
your call, you meet regularly with the Candidate Director.
You come together regularly with other candidates for
prayer, study, discussion, and fun! As a Candidate, you
are encouraged to deepen your Christian commitment, and
to grow in your life of prayer and service.
After mutual discernment you are invited to live in one
of our local communities sharing in the prayer and community
life of the sisters. During your candidacy, you may continue
working in a ministry already familiar to you, begin working
in a new ministry, or continue your studies.
As a novice,
you deepen your relationship with Jesus Christ. You continue
discerning your call, seeking ever greater self-knowledge,
insight and awareness of the presence of God. The novitiate
experience includes one year as a novice at the Motherhouse
in Chestnut Hill and one year as a canonical novice in
the Federation Novitiate. At the end of this period of
discernment, you are invited to first profession of vows.
As an initially professed
sister, you deepen and celebrate
your commitment to Jesus Christ through annual profession
of vows. During this time, you are fully involved in the
apostolic work of the Congregation and continue to gather
regularly for days of prayer, study, spiritual guidance,
and instruction in the essentials of religious life as
a Sister of Saint Joseph.
Through your act of perpetual
profession, you publicly confirm
your desire to love God and others and to live in vowed
membership throughout your life.
For more information contact:
Vocation Director
Kathleen Claflin, SSJ
kclaflin@ssjphila.org
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