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Vocation Promotion
Stages
of the RVM Formation
Aspirancy (optional)
You will be welcomed in the spirit of Marian hospitality
to stay for a short time in a particular RVM house
near your place so you could get to know the sisters
and discern your choice and desire to enter the Postulancy.
Postulancy or Pre-Novitiate (9
months)
In this stage, you will study, work, and pray together
with the other postulants in Tagaytay City (if from
the Philippines). This will be an evaluation period
whether or not you pursue your call to the RVM Congregation
and respond with sufficient and proper responsibility
and freedom.
Novitiate (2 years)
This is where you will develop your intimacy with
God through silence, fasting and prayer. The environment
will help you get in touch with your core, discover
your true self and your interconnectedness with others
in the profound presence of God. Activities will
also lead you to appreciate liturgy and the mission.
After 2 years, you will have your First Vows.
Juniorate (4-5 years)
You will be a temporary professed RVM Sister and
will be sent out to the "real" mission. You will
experience the challenges of RVM community life in
the ministry where you will be assigned.
Tertianship (10 months)
You will have to return to the Formation House to
prepare yourself for the Final Vows. More prayer,
processing and integration activities will be provided
to help you become a full-pledge RVM Sister. |
Vocation Reflection
VOCATION is a special gift from God. On our part, it
is a positive, free response to Him, a loving gift given
back to the Giver who is God who calls. It is nourished
by a continuing experience of God giving witness to joyful
and loving service of others.
Rediscovering Vocation Ministry
The recent National Vocation Convention
renewed, rekindled, spiced up, liven up, stirred up, reawakened,
breathe life into the spirit/person of each vocation minister
and certainly has brought back life to the MINISTRY. The
Convention’s
foremost goal was to provide the vocation ministries the
skills / to equip them with the proper know-how, to help
them be effective in the field of promoting vocation.
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A Looking Back With Gratitude to God
What a special privilege it is to be given an opportunity
to look back at my twenty-four years as an RVM in preparation
for my Silver Jubilee next year. My deep and heartfelt THANKS
to my Mother Congregation for all the love and concern, support
and care, and never-ending opportunities for growing in the
religious life God has called me to live. THANKS to my Sisters
in the Congregation, my family, friends and benefactors,
all the people I have worked with, and all those who have
touched my life and whose lives I have touched through the
years.
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