Sister Dorothy: called for and nurtured into religious life.

Humanity unites in Sister Kathy's 6 Word Story of Hope.

Relationships in religious life perpetually bloom. 

Collaboration to survive, learning new ways to thrive

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

We're excited to have you with us this Catholic Sisters Week!

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

Do I have unanswered questions that God can guide me through?

If I had unlimited time, how would I spend it?

How can I experience my deepest joy?

What am I allowing to stop me from pursuing my dreams?

If I could go anywhere in the world, where would it be?

"There was fun, excitement and challenge in all of it."

"It came to me when I first visited St. Rose ..."

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

Sister Dawn, nurturing relationships and National Vocation Awareness Week!

"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?

"You can't say yes to religious life until you can say no to it. It must be a free choice."

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?

We learn by asking questions…lots and lots of questions. 

When someone wants to learn more about membership with our congregation, we receive and answer some common questions time and again. And, to help answer those, we've created a reflection guide (learn more and reserve your copy!) ... 

"... 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."

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

Will we live with eyes wide open or avert our glance, ignoring our brothers and sisters in need?

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

In discernment, abundance is recognizing that God provides more than we could ever consume.

From novice to the common good: the language of discerning religious life.

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

There may not be assembly instructions for completing the perfect household project or the future, discernment included.

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

What happens when parents, friends experience their own moments of obscurity in your discernment?

What would happen if you contacted the community whose website is open in your browser?

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

The Holy Spirit is really good at getting my attention, inviting me to contemplation.

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

What are you finding within the diversion of distraction in discernment?

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.

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

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.

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: following the light of daily reflection

How long will this take? How will I know?

Religious discernment: scrutinizing, eliminating and finding the right fit.

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

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

Olympics and religious discernment: to win not a gold medal but a relationship with God, you don't have to be a skilled athlete of prayer.

Are you nurturing the coals and fanning the flames of discernment?

Discerning in a hurting world: when our faith asks us, in difficult times, to look again.

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?

Traveling through the waters of discernment

Your journey to religious life starts with your story... and a step.