You join the community for special occasions and explore how we live. You continue your study or career and live independently. This period of exploration lasts six months to a year. During this time your live, work and pray with a local community of Presentation Sisters. This is an opportunity for you to grow in self-knowledge, and in relationship with the Sisters and with God.
Candidacy lasts from one to two years.
This stage begins the formal study of Presentation spirituality and mission. You continue to deepen your faith life, study the vows and live in community. The novitiate lasts two years. Following novitiate, vows of poverty, chastity and obedience are professed for a period of three years. At the conclusion of this time, you may request to renew your vows, to profess your vows permanently, or to return to your former lifestyle.