RELIGIOUS PROFESSION CEREMONY

Feast of the Presentation of the Lord
February 2, 2010

The rite of perpetual profession is an act voluntarily made by a person to give herself to God in the service of the Church. 

 When the Sister is called, she answers, HERE I AM, as a personal response to her God as she offers herself to Him as a total gift.

The Bishop will question the Sisters if they truly realize the seriousness of the commitment they are about to make and the consequence of this in their lives.  The Sisters, with full knowledge, and full consent and resoluteness, answer these questions as a sign of their definitive commitment.

 In the Litany of the Saints, we join them in fervent prayer as they beg God and the company of the holy ones to sustain them in their holy desire. 

 Each Sister will pronounce her formula of profession as a declaration in public and a confirmation of her desire to commit herself to God and His purpose from now on until death.

 Then, she signs the contract on the altar, as a seal of her total self-oblation.  She belongs to God, and she belongs to the SPC Congregation.  All her life will be lived in this congregation until she breathes her final YES to God.