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Novitiate
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Acceptance into the Novitiate begins a two-year intensive deepening of one's prayer life and experience of religious life. Novices study the theology of religious life, the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, our Franciscan Rule and Constitution of our congregation. Experiences in ministry during the second year of the novitiate provide further opportunities to learn to integrate spiritual and apostolic life. A novice who decides to continue in religious life makes temporary vows, at the end of the novitiate.
Meet our Novices. Next step—Temporary Vows. |
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Sr Theresa Marie and Sr Maria Kolbe adore Our
Lord after being invested in their newly blessed habits. Meet them below. |
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A Day in the Life of a Novice
5:30 Meditation
Lauds (Morning Prayer)
Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
Adoration and Rosary
7:30 Breakfast
8:00 Work Assignments
10:00 Classes
11:00 Choir
11:45 Midday Prayer
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Class
2:00 Prayer - Spiritual Reading, Adoration
3:30 Work Assignments or Visit Sisters in the Infirmary
5:00 Holy Hour
Rosary
Vespers (Evening Prayer)
Benediction
6:00 Dinner
6:30 Recreation
7:00 Compline (Night Prayer)
The Sisters take turns in keeping the hours of adoration before Our Lord throughout the night.
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Meet our Novices
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Sister M. Petra
Sister is a second year novice. Sr M Petra was born at St. Anthony Hospital in Crown Point, IN and first met our sisters while attending elementary school at Our Lady of Grace school in Highland, IN. She is the third of four children. She attended Purdue University Calumet in Hammond where she majored in political science and minored in German. She attended graduate school at George Washington University in Washington D.C where she majored in Russian and East European Studies. After graduation, she received a Fulbright Research Fellowship to Austria and moved to Vienna where she lived for four years. Her most recent job was at the National Security Archive in Washington D.C. as coordinator of their Freedom of Information Project. She helped with the homeless ministry at her parish and volunteered with the Missionaries of Charity in Washington, D.C.
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Sister M. Benedicta
Sister is a second year novice. She is the third of seven children. She hails from Cleveland, OH and graduated from the University of Notre Dame in December, 2007 with a bachelor of arts degree in theology. After graduation she worked at the Women’s Care Center as a receptionist and assistant to the counselors. While at Notre Dame, she was one of the coordinator’s of the “Edith Stein Project”. This is a conference organized by Notre Dame students with the aim of promoting the dignity of women according to the teachings of the Church. Sr M Benedicta first met our sisters at one of our discernment retreats.
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Sister is a second year novice. She is originally from Minnesota but recently resided in South Dakota with her parents. She graduated from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota with a degree in Music. She worked at a local Catholic Bookstore and was involved in her parish through cantoring, as a choir member, and musician. She has also spent time volunteering at Birthright as a crisis pregnancy counselor, board member, and director for one year. |
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Sister is a first year novice. She originally came from the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. About the name she was given when invested with the habit she says, Maria—we are called to give totally of ourselves as Our Lady did, in order to bring forth Jesus in the world around us. Kolbe is after St Maximilian Kolbe. He loved our Lady and the Lord so much that he laid down his life for the sake of others. |
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Sr Theresa Marie, a first year novice, entered our community from the Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana. About the name she was given when invested with the habit she says, Marie is to honor our Lady and Theresa is after Venerable Mother Maria Theresia, our foundress, as well as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. She is attracted by the simplicity of Blessed Teresa's spirituality, particularly her frequent references to Jesus' thirst for us and our thirst for Him. After entering our community and learning more about Mother Maria Theresia, she could identify with some of the struggles Mother had to overcome regarding her own vocation. |
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