No matter the space between us, we unite with you in peace.

Let us unite in prayer this Memorial Day.

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

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

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

Advent in action: are you recognizing division in your life?

Let's gather around the table full of blessings and prayers.

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

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

Meet Sister Kristin along the #2019MeetOurSisters Tour route today!

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

Sister Dawn, nurturing relationships and National Vocation Awareness Week!

Have faith "in your deepest desires and God's grace."

"... exciting to see what ministry has offered me."

"I had several strong influences to inspire me."

"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.’

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

Honoring discernment, ministry and perpetual adoration

“I still choose to live it every day.”

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

For these blessings and the opportunity to choose religious life, we give thanks.

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

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

In Sister Laura’s Show me a sign video, she discusses how she navigates her changing role as daughter.

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

"Tapping into wisdom and knowledge ... as we all walk together to make a difference in the world."

Sister Dawn, in this Show me a sign video, discusses the common religious life discernment question: How will religious life affect my relationships?

How could religious life call you to be a person of love in the world?

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?” 
 

In our premiere video, watch Sister Lucy and her sister Eileen talk about the sibling relationship during discernment and after profession of vows. 

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?

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

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."

Let us remember, celebrate, pray.

"In my heart," shares Sister Cormarie, "my vows were final the first time I spoke them."

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

"The time is blooming with opportunity, and craving what we have to offer."

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

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

Let the 2018 FSPA Jubilee celebrations begin!

Carry this gift, from your journey through Advent and discernment, always in your spirit.

Call to mind the boldness of wearing orange when the world encourages you to blend in.

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."

"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.

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

FSPA: living modern lives, sacred traditions.

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

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.

Are you ready to allow God--not a stagnant statue of your own creation--to be the form you follow?

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.

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

Is it snowing in your world of discernment?

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.

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

Journaling by hand or tweeting by phone: are you documenting your discernment?

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

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

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?

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