Becoming a Sister of St. John the Baptist
Yes, we are called to holiness. Surely, it has something to do with saying 'YES' to God, however small we may feel in the great scheme of things …saying 'YES' to God.
In the word of the martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero: “It is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for God’s grace to enter and do the rest.”
Where are you now?
Where do you want to go?
What’s leading you?
When a person expresses her desire to be a member of our community, she lives in close association in one of our communities and gets first hand experience of our life of prayer, community and ministry. (COME AND SEE).
It is a time of experience which permits the candidate to deepen her life of faith and to grow in freedom to answer the call of God with certain maturity, thus enabling the pre-novice and the congregation to come to know each other.
During this period the novice continues her integral formation, based on a very deep God experience. She makes sure of her call to follow Christ as a member of an international Congregation. She is initiated to live the charisma and mission of the Sisters of St. John the Baptist and Mary Queen. The first profession is at the end of the Noviciate.
She continues the personal spiritual experience begun in the novitiate and grows in the love of Christ and his people by a life of contemplation in action. She lives her mission in an apostolic community, learns to situate herself as a religious in the milieu where she lives and receives the confirmation of her call to be a Sister of St. John the Baptist and Mary Queen.
The duration is normally six years.
Answering the urgent need of the time, each member takes her on-going formation seriously. She works at her integral formation which contributes to the development of her capacities and strengthens her apostolic vigour. She constantly renews her encounter with the living Christ and gives priority to His preferences and choices in her daily life. A deep spirituality feeds the soul with the spirit that makes on going commitments possible.
