How are you discovering, building, learning ... discerning?

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

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!   

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

"Who am I called to be?"

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

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

‘My delight has been being spirit led to an ever-deepening relationship with God.’

Honoring discernment, ministry and perpetual adoration

“I still choose to live it every day.”

Sister Rosile's advice to discerners: “Trust in God — you will be making the right choice.”

What adventure God is offering for you to consider?

How will we make the time to give our attention to prayer, not only during the season of Advent but throughout the whole year?

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

FSPA celebrates the ministry, since Aug. 1, 1978, of perpetual adoration to the world.

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

Let us light up the sky with bold goodness of prayer ...

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."

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

Praying for religious life on April 22: who will you invite to the conversation?

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

How can the invitation to discern help you develop your own heart of flesh?

Let the 2018 FSPA Jubilee celebrations begin!

Silent, spoken, individual, communal, mindful: Sister Clarone reflects on fruitful paths to prayer.

Discipline and commitment in our hearts: not just in Lent but Advent and discernment too.

Her "heart in the middle of my being" is vital to Sister Ronalda.

Creation, says Sister Sue, is a small footprint of God's capacity.

"I thank God daily," says Sister Antona, "for His companionship and love."

Calling through quiet to her innermost spirit and that of God, and listening "to find the courage and RESPOND" is, for Sister Anita, prayer. 

Sister Rita Mae Fischer finds sanctuary, centering, connection and courage in the heartache of death through painting.

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

Simple and natural and wonderful, the astronomical gifts of all creation call Sister Karolyne twice daily to most profound prayer. 

Poetry as prayer: Sister Lucy Ann is "experiencing deep and profound insights about who I am and how to live more fully into the mysteries of life."

"A letter to God," writes Sister Sharon in Franciscan Way, "turned out not to be penance at all."

May the warmth of the cup, transferred to my hands, be a reminder of the warmth and love I am to extend to all who I meet today.

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

Intimacy with God is not separate from day-to-day life.

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

"Good Morning Jesus" -- my soul's connection with the presence of God.

When the helping hand comes, that's my answer.

FSPA: living modern lives, sacred traditions.

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

As each bell chimed, my vision of the world widened; I've prayed for people around the globe.

139 years of perpetual adoration: rejoicing, ringing, reflecting and praying. 

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

Road of discernment: your gifts and talents may be precious fuel for propelling us into the future.

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.

By choosing to distract ourselves from listening—particularly when we are called to rise to the potential already within us—we can hide from God.

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

Jesus showed us how to navigate potholes in discernment.

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

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

Discernment: following the light of daily reflection

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

Are you building bridges in discernment?

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.

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

Who are the trailblazers in your life? Are you willing to go where God leads?

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 ...

Traveling through the waters of discernment