One aspect to consider early in your discernment process is if you are being drawn to a monastic, an apostolic or a cloister community. As Benedictines, as monastics, our priority is the communal search for God — in community life and prayer. From our life flows a response in ministry. This is quite different from an apostolic congregation whose focus is ministry, as they draw support from each other and from prayer, or from a cloister community. Women come to a Benedictine community to seek God.

Each woman hears a personal call from Jesus and responds. It is through a deepening relationship with Jesus that she grows in personal holiness and, in seeming paradox, finds her heart open wider to the human community.

To read daily reflections from the Rule of St. Benedict, click here.

To pray daily with the sisters, click here.

To read current reflections from the prioress, click here.

To read a vocation story, click here.