Inquiry
Seek information and vocational direction with one of our vocation directors, listed on our home page. (Check out the faith bio of Anna Keim , SNJM, who once was a corrections officer and now is a vowed Sister.)

Get to know us. Attend a "Come and See" event or a day of reflection, listed on the vocations home page. And find out more about oru work on our main web site.

Create relationships with a companion Sister and welcoming community.

Candidacy
Take the first formal step of entrance: Live for a period, usually one year, in an SNJM community.

Novitiate
Spend a two-year period of integration into religious life.
First year: Focuses on deepening a life of prayer, reflection, and learning the way of vowed life in the SNJM tradition.
Second year: Provides an experience of mission, community life and an opportunity to serve in an SNJM ministry.

Temporary Vows
Live vowed commitment for three to six  years.
Continue an SNJM apostolic lifestyle flowing from the values of vowed poverty, celibacy and obedience.

Permanent Vows
Choose to make the vows of poverty, celibacy and obedience for a lifetime within the SNJM Congregation.