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

All are invited to join, experience and listen with FSPA as we celebrate women religious!   

"Francis would be happy" for the "diversity of the Franciscan family."

"I just knew since second grade," shares Sister Linda about her discernment.

“I still choose to live it every day.”

In Sister Sarah’s Show me a sign video, she and her parents discuss the common religious life discernment question, “What if my family isn’t Catholic?” 
 

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

Reach out to our brothers and sisters -- do what is yours to do -- through prayer, in ministry.

Where do these pioneers, blazing their own paths to religious life, inspire you to go?

"... 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."

"... living religious life is a journey," shares Sister Sandra, who learned in ministry that "miracles happen."

Tending to discernment requires prayer, guidance, openness ... risking the goodness when found.

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.

What would happen if we woke up and fostered peace and positivity instead of hate and greed?

Sister Amy, in her own discernment, found that "Each community carried individual tones and music of life."

Your obituary: will it speak to your courage, service, voice, gifts?

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

Community gathers, grateful for prayers, all is gift!

Commitment to prayer, service polishes their priceless lives.

The circle of discernment: even wider when you consider that the whole Catholic church is praying for you.

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

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

Is it snowing in your world of discernment?

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

What if, like St. Clare, you lived your life steeped in prayer?

Crossing 800 and 138-year-old thresholds to love, acceptance and forgiveness.

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

The jubilee of your life: is discernment leading you to enjoy it rather than endure it?

When I am discerning I’m not always sure where I’m going, and often times someone else is driving. That someone else may be God ...