We invite you into "the Mess of radical Gospel living!"

Under the clutter, are you uncovering invitations to religious life?

Searching for recovery and inspiration ... we too are watching the tomb.

Collaboration to survive, learning new ways to thrive

How do you walk with thirst in your own desert experience?

Advent in action: are you living in the glow of discernment?

Advent in action: Are you willing to make room for Jesus and the world in your life?

Are you called to add your voice to the vocation conversation? 

"No matter where discernment takes you, carry today's Gospel acclamation as you journey forth ..."

How a candid conversation led to 60 years of religious life.

“It just seemed to be my way,” says Sister Lorraine.

"I love companioning people as they live into the fullness of God's invitation for their life."

"The most exciting realization ... is that I'm not finished!"

What adventure God is offering for you to consider?

Hope is there like a long, invisible chain, linking the moments until the celebration can begin.

How has God been with you ... every step of the way?

Are you carrying and comprehending security, delight and love through the doors to religious life?

"... each new shape of clay," shares Sister Amy about her time with Sister Laurice at the potter's wheel, "mirrored my own transformation as a religious sister."

Discernment: "... when a walk becomes a gateway to prayer that soothes our souls."

"The trust lay people put in me with their personal lives." 

God guides us to explore the depths of vocational discernment even in the most dreaded circumstances, with us as we confront the temptations that threaten our fidelity to live in communion with God.

When desire to be of service is present, are we ready to love like Christ?

Spiritual blisters: symbols of joy discovered in risking the journey.

How is your discernment part of the pilgrimage experience? Are you willing to enter the passage?

Active vs. contemplative discernment: visiting communities and meeting sisters equally essential as praying for wisdom and direction.

FSPA: living modern lives, sacred traditions.

Witness what it means to walk the Gospel-centered journey of life as a religious sister.

Commitment to prayer, service polishes their priceless lives.

Easter alleluias always come: God will not abandon you on your discernment journey.

When we say "Yes" to vocation we—like Mary—must walk the road, learning as we go, trusting God is always there.

On the Lenten road of kindness and spiritual growth, Esther is a model for discerners.

Love: it's also what discernment—and religious life—are all about.

Does love want others to lose in order for someone to win?

Will you be part of the next generation of consecrated life?

What if your dream is the one the world needs now?

Trust—on the days you feel like you aren't measuring up to your discernment resolutions—in the power of prayer.

The searing questions we hear on the lips of Jesus are held in tension with this sense of Advent joy.

The clear invitation of the Advent season: amidst the work make way for hope in our hearts, hope in discernment.

Discernment: How you wait is just as important as the waiting.

Searching and serving--every day--those on the periphery.

Running from silence: when we plug in are we silencing God?

Discerning through the dust of spiritual earthquakes: a readiness and responsiveness to what becomes unearthed.

Would your life be different if Jesus and your relationship and your beliefs were unwrapped?

Are you called to join a family of Franciscans working in service of the Gospel?

Words, vows, renewing commitment: what does your life call you to today?