What is the Federation Novitiate?
Since 2000 the Federation has offered an eight-month program that meets all the canonical norms required for a novitiate in the Catholic Church. In 2018, the Federation Novitiate moved to a ten-month program.
The ten-month segment of the canonical novitiate provides a concentrated time to study the life, spirituality, and mission of the Sisters of St. Joseph.
During this period the novices deepen their relationship with God, experience the richness of the spiritual life of the Sisters of St Joseph, and engages in ongoing discernment to determine if religious life is what God is asking of her.
Our novitiate program resides in Brentwood, New York. As the novitiate program begins we invite you to meet our novices:
