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How is the call to the priesthood discerned?
Discernment for the priesthood is undertaken by two parties.
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What happens during postulancy?
Postulancy lasts for approximately one year. It is a time during which the postulant discovers…
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Where are the houses of formation?
The community novitiates are in…
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How does a brother choose his religious name?
A religious name is given to a brother at his clothing (when he receives the habit), half way through the noviciate. The novice himself suggests three names…
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Who are the teachers?
The professors who teach in the formation centers of the brothers have a state or a canonical diploma.
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How a brother’s assignment is decided?
A brother is assigned to a priory by the Prior General according to the needs of the life and the mission of the brothers there
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How to discern a call?
The word vocation comes from the Latin vocare, to call. As in the days of the first disciples, Christ continues to say to some: “Come and follow me”.
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Who are the Contemplative Sisters of Saint John?
The Community of Contemplative Sisters of Saint John, given the status of a diocesan religious institute by the Archbishop of Lyon on March 25, 1994…
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Who are the Apostolic Sisters of Saint John?
The Apostolic Sisters of Saint-Jean were founded in 1984 and recognized as a religious diocesan congregation
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What are the links between the religious communities of the Saint John Family?
Although united in the same spiritual family – The Saint John Family-, each religious community has its own government, its history and its way of life.
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What is an Oblate?
These are lay people eager to live their baptismal vocation following the apostle John
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What are the three wisdoms?
Philosophical wisdom seeks to discover what man is in all his dimensions. It takes as its starting point our fundamental human experiences (work and love, for example) and reaches its culmination in an ultimate inquiry, namely the discovery of the existence of a First Being, the source of everything that exists. Theological wisdom is a [...]
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What is the daily life of a brother?
We live in small communities of 5 to 10 brothers, called priories. The day begins with a time of silent prayer in the chapel
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How to become an oblate?
Any baptized person, aware of the meaning of his baptismal vocation and of the witness he has to give in the world, wishing to live in the spirit of the Saint John Family, can apply for secular oblation.
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What is communal life?
The communal life we live is a response to Jesus’ command: “Love one another as I have loved you” (Jn 13:34)
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What are the three vows?
The three vows we make are those of poverty, chastity and obedience. Life according to these three vows corresponds to “the form of life which the Son of God took on entering the world” (Vita consecrata, 16).
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What is a religious?
A brother of Saint John is a religious. Religious means joined or linked to. A religious is a baptized person who has received a particular call from Jesus to bind himself to Him through vows and in community life.
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The place of the Virgin Mary
“Seeing his mother and near her the disciple whom he loved, Jesus said to her, Woman, here is your son, then he said to the disciple Here is your mother. From that hour the disciple took her to his home ”(Jn 19,26-27). Like John, we want to take Mary into our life and receive her from Jesus as the mother of our life in grace.
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Who is Saint John?
Son of Zebedee, fisherman from Lake Tiberias and brother of Saint James the Greater, Saint John was first a disciple of Saint John the Baptist.
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What is the position with the Contemplative Sisters today?
The 80 sisters who currently make up the community of the Contemplative Sisters of St. John have chosen to cooperate with the Church authorities
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The Brothers of Saint John in numbers
Graphs showing the brothers in formation, their origins, the age pyramid, etc.
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