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 Browsing through the pages of this web site you have begun to know a bit about our life and the women who have embraced it. After reflection and prayer, you may like to know a bit more about the process of becoming a member of our community. We would invite you to contact us through e-mail, by phone or letter.
As you begin the journey with us, you will be invited to keep in touch on a regular basis, and perhaps make a visit to the Monastery to meet with some of the Sisters and to participate in our community prayer. After a period of mutual exchange, it may seem appropriate to have you come for a live-in experience for a week or a few months. This will give you an opportunity to view the life “up close”.
The process of incorporation begins with an application form,
along with medical reports and references. (At some point during the
formation process, there may be the opportunity to complete a
psychological profile as one of the tools helpful in discerning a
vocation.)
Postulancy (one year)
One
begins living the regular routine of the community and finding out
about our Clarian form of life. During this time, the community and the
postulant are discerning together if one is called to this particular
expression of religious life. At the end of the year, the postulant and
the sisters evaluate their experience together.
Novitiate (2 years)
is
a time of more intense spiritual formation through prayer, study and
shared life experience. This is a time to discern more fully God’s will
and to learn the meaning of a commitment to God through a vowed life.
At regular stages there is a review with the community to discern
whether living in this particular community is life-giving for the
person and for the sisters.
First profession (3 years)
The
novice now commits herself fully to community living responding to
God’s call through the giving of self in obedience, chastity and
poverty and enclosure. If at the end of the three years, the sister and
the community have both discerned that this is indeed her call from
God, she is then invited to make a life-long commitment in this
community.
This is not the end of the process, however, but only the beginning of a life of adventure and joy in discovering God through prayer, sisterhood and daily living.
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