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Vocations
Formation Program


Sister Rosina Conrotto
Formation Team

A classical definition of formation as it applies to religious life in the Roman Catholic Church is the process of exploring and experiencing the life of the religious congregation, of becoming acquainted with the members and mission of the community, of deepening one's relationship with God and with the community through prayer, education, and experience in ministry.
The focus of Formation is to grow in love of God, and impelled by that love, and with each other to reach beyond ourselves and our own interests to those persons most in need in our society.

Today, Presentation Sisters of San Francisco and Presentation Sisters all over the world, are privileged, like our foundress, Nano Nagle, to minister with those made poor, the sick, the elderly, the marginalized, the immigrant, and with women seeking to move out of prostitution. These are the ministries for which we train our new members.

 


Sister Kathleen Sickly
Formation Team


Sister Antoinette Martinez
Formation Team

However, Formation for new members means much more than adopting a new lifestyle. To become a Sister of the Presentation today means to become a new person, bringing gifts and talents for community life and mission, being open to the transforming presence of the Holy Spirit, growing in love of God and love of God's people.

 


What do the beginning stages of Formation look like?

Stage 1: Candidacy
The first stage is the Candidacy Stage, when new members are welcomed into the community, live with our Sisters, experience the prayer and ministry of the Sisters. This period of time usually lasts from six months to two years.

Stage 2: Novitiate
This part of the process is a two year period in which new members deepen their relationship. with God, study the life and mission of the Sisters, study theology, and in general continue to interiorize and integrate their prayer, life experience, values, education, and ministry. On a deeper level, new members continue to discern with their Sisters, if indeed religious life is the context in which they are most alive and challenged by the Gospel of Jesus.

Stage 3: Temporary Vows
The third stage occurs after the Novitiate, when the new members make temporary vows of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience. During this third stage, new members are engaged in full-time ministry and continue to form community with the Sisters.

We acknowledge that in our life as Presentation Sisters something bigger, more dynamic, more radical than ourselves, happens! That is the life of God's Spirit, ever drawing us out to the winding lanes of Cork, of San Francisco, of the world.

For more information regarding the Sisters of the Presentation Formation Program, contact Sister Rosina Conrotto at rconrotto@presentationmh.org or call (415) 752-1601 x 101

 

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