A flourishing of novices, Part I

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 of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration

Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal

Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George

Hmph…lots of Franciscans, here. I guess the Dominicans and Benedictines do their things a little later.

Ummm, and of course, this all goes for the fellows, too.

Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, also here.

Some Dominican Novice Brothers.

A new friar here, and I believe the sisters at Moniales are receiving a new postulant tomorrow.

Meanwhile, an unusual discernment story.

And Gerald has thoughts on why some religious orders are thriving with young vocations while others are not. And Darcee has some fair thoughts on something seldom discussed but troubling regarding how we present ourselves in comments sections, sometimes.

More to come within the next few weeks.