While monastic orders and a few active ones tend to receive new postulants and novices individually, many “active” religious orders tend to do so in groups. The end of August or beginning of September is that season when year-old postulants finally are invested in their longed-for habits and veils, and other sisters make their progressions from second-year novices to be simply professed or solemnly professed. A few religious orders have already begun, and these young women are all aglow: Sisters... Read more