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!   

If I could talk to anyone on Earth, who would it be?

What visions do I have of my future?

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

How am I serving my community?

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

How are my values reflected in the choices I make?

What needs around me can I fulfill?

What if I chose to live with others who also want to make a difference?

What if I chose to work for the good of others?

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

Are you discerning and wondering "How will I navigate my changing role as a daughter?"

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!

"Who am I called to be?"

“I still choose to live it every day.”

Celebrating love, action ... and discernment in Holy Week.

In Sister Jacinta’s Show me a sign video, she discusses the common religious life discernment question, “Will I stay in contact with my family?” 

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

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?

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

"Being a part of community has clearly amplified what I can do with my life in ways that I could never do as a single Catholic woman."

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

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

Celebrating love, action ... discernment in Holy Week.

He fills our spirits with joy!

"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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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."

Walking together — through life changers like discernment — takes courage and conviction but also generates power to shape the future.

Discernment: imagining yourself in new climates, cultures an invitation from God. 

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Leaving your illusions at the door: who you are and why God calls you to discern religious life.

Discernment: following the light of daily reflection

How long will this take? How will I know?

God recognizes and welcomes us, costumed or not.

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

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

Sometimes we have to wait in a state of contemplative silence to really know what to do next ... 

How are you dealing with the storms of life that can be part of discernment?

Ask yourself: are you seeing discernment from new heights? A different point of view?