Stages of Membership
Pre-Affiliation:
"Am I called?"
(Six months to two years)
Offers a period of support while you prayerfully discern your call.
Affiliation:
"Is this Congregation 'right' for me?"
(Approximately one to two years)
Live in a Notre Dame community and experience life with members of the congregation as you learn more about the SND spirit and mission.
Novitiate:
"Is God calling me to a life of poverty, celibate chastity and obedience?"
(Two Years)
As a novice you will be given the direction and time necessary to deepen and integrate your life of contemplation, mission and ministry and the living of the vows.
Initial Commitment:
"Am I able and willing to make a commitment to Notre Dame?"
(Approximately five years)
Upon making your first vows of celibate chastity, poverty and obedience in a public ceremony, you will live as a member in one or more Notre Dame communities, paticipate in ministry and continue to discern your readiness to make a lifetime commitment as a Sister of Notre Dame.
Sr. Ellen McAdam makes first vows
Sr. Ellen McAdam makes her first vows in Hartford, CT with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
Permanent Commitment:
"How can I continue loving and serving the good God?"
At the time of your final vows you dedicate your entire life to God and God's people as a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. Through God's faithful love, you will know the grace to live out and grow in that commitment.
Watch Sisters Mary Corripio and Jennifer Pierce make their Perpetual Vows with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.