How to achieve it?

Any young woman, from the age of 18, can become a Spiritan if she wants to respond to the Lord’s call in the missionary religious life.

To become a Spiritan a time of formation and life with the Sisters is necessary.

At first, she should meet a Spiritan Sister, express her desire for a religious and missionary vocation.

After a period of progress in a community of Spiritan Sisters, called Community Internship, the candidate can submit a request to enter in the Postulancy, if she wishes to continue her vocational discernment.

She will make a first stage of Postulancy in her country of origin, then continue a second stage at the International Postulancy, currently located in Dakar, Senegal.

At the end of the Postulancy, the candidate can apply to enter the International Novitiate, currently located in France, in Vaucresson in the Paris region.

The novitiate is a time of seclusion, like a long spiritual retreat. It allows to continue to discern:

• the vocation of a missionary religious life
• the call to live in an international community
• the desire to be united to Christ and to follow him on the paths of the Mission.

At the end of the novitiate, the candidate takes her first vows in the Congregation. She immediately received a first mission, called obedience and became an ad-extra missionary.

A few years later, the Church confirms this first commitment with Perpetual Vows.

Perpetual Vows of Sister Elke, Parish of Notre Dame de l’Arche d’Alliance.