Salesian Sisters
Formation Program

Every religious community has a formation program which is divided into stages. The Salesian Sisters follow the formation program described below:

1. The Journey Begins
A young woman who expresses a desire to become a Salesian Sister applies to the Community and lives in a Salesian Sister's community. She is invited to spend times of prayer, relaxation, retreat, personal growth and ministry with the Sisters. These real life experiences help the person to develop an awareness of her call. This may begin with he contacting the Vocation Director.

2. Postulancy
The journey continues with Postulancy, a time of immediate preparation for the Novitiate. It is a time of spiritual growth and ministry experience. The young women become familiar with the life, spirituality and ministry of the Salesian Sisters.

3. Novitiate
The Novice enters into an initiation into consecrated life in the Church as a Salesian Sister. By means of a serious study of religious life, of theology, and through ministry experience the Novice learns to center her life in Christ, living and learning the spirituality of St. John Bosco and St. Mary Mazzarello.

4. Service
The novice makes her first vows after the Novitiate. She commits herself to love the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience for a temporary period. The Sister freely chooses to unite her life in Christ, giving herself in service to youth in the spirituality of the Salesian charism.

5. Perpetual Profession
After six years of temporary vows the Sister makes perpetual vows. She promises to live her life as a Salesian Sister for life. She will spend her whole life in the service of the Church bringing Christ to the young.