Becoming A Sister Of St Joseph
As Sisters of St Joseph we are women who live our Catholic faith through focusing on the gospel invitation to love God wholeheartedly and to love others by being particularly attentive to the needs of those who are vulnerable, isolated, deprived and excluded in society.
Through vows we endeavour to develop a right relationship with God within us, within others and within our world.
The clarity of our Founders’ vision and charism impels us to:
- identify and walk with those who are today’s poor: those who are isolated, deprived, marginalised and rejected, those abused and lacking opportunity and choice
- harmonise all our energies for God’s Mission
- have a heart for Mission to our last breath.
- depend on the providence and generous love of God.
For those experiencing a sense of call to embrace the Josephite Charism as a vowed Religious, they need to demonstrate that they have the potential to be able to participate in this expression of the Mission of Jesus. They are invited to enter a process of immersion into the Josephite ‘culture’ and into a process of discernment of the call to Religious Life.
Becoming a Sister of St Joseph involves an extended time of discernment in which a woman,
with the guidance of a Josephite Mentor begins a journey that gradually leads her more deeply into understanding Josephite vowed life. At the completion of this journey of immersion and discernment the woman will either choose to make a commitment through vows or choose to live out the gospel call in another way.
For those who discern that their call is to enter more deeply into Josephite vowed life, the journey will proceed through a number of stages, during which they will be ‘accompanied’ by Josephite mentors.
For more information about the nature of the process and journey of immersion and discernment, we invite you to visit the following websites and then make the contact suggested if you feel drawn to further explore the possibility of joining any of these Josephite Congregations:
