Resources: Women

Please note: this list of resources is by no means exhaustive. However, it is meant to provide a starting point for you in your discernment journey.
Did we miss any resources or communities? Please let us know in the comments!

Online Resources

Some Communities Joined By Young Women from the Archdiocese of Edmonton in the Past Five Years

This list includes North American communities that young women from our Archdiocese have either entered or are currently in the process of serious discernment with.
Do you know a young woman from our Archdiocese who has entered consecrated life in the past 10 years? Please let us know in the comments below.

Congregation of the Sisters of Merciful Jesus — Maskwacis, AB

Communities Within the Archdiocese of Edmonton

Congregation of Notre Dame (CND)

Congregation of Sisters of Merciful Jesus (CSMJ)

Daughters of Wisdom (Montfort Sisters)

Discalced Carmelite Nuns 

Faithful Companions ofJesus (FCJ)

Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement (SA)

Les Filles de Jesus (FJ)

Missionary Oblate Sistersof the Sacred Heart and of Mary Immaculate

Religious of the Virgin Mary (RVM)

Sisters of Assumption (SASV) 

Sisters of Charity of Montreal "Grey Nuns" 

Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul (Halifax) (SC)

Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception (SCIC)

Sisters of the Holy Names (Polish) of Alberta

Sisters of Our Lady of Charity (OLC)

Sisters of Our Lady of the Cross (NDC)

Sisters of Providence (SP)

Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul (Kingston) (SP) 

Sisters of St. Joseph (in Canada) (CSJ)

Soeurs de la Charity de Notre Dame d'Evron (SEC)   

Ursulines of Chatham Union (OSU)

Ursulines of Jesus (UJ)

Ursulines Sisters of Prelate (OSU)


A Sampling of Communities Within Canada

Carmel of St. Joseph -- Spruce Grove, AB

Missionaries of Charity — Vancouver, BC
Poor Clare Nuns -- Mission, BC

Madonna House Apostolate Community — Combermere, ON

Carmel of St. Joseph — St. Agatha, ON

Sisters of the Presentation of Mary — Saskatoon, SK

The Dominican Missionary Adorers — Quebec City, QC

Dominican Sisters Immaculate Conception Province — Calgary, AB

Trappistine Nuns of Notre Dame de l'Assomption Abbey -- Rogersville, NB (bilingual community: French and English spoken)


A Sampling of Communities in the US
Apostolic ("Active")
Carmelite

Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart


Charismatic
Disciples of Our Lord Jesus Christ


Daughters of St. Paul
Pauline Sisters ("Media Nuns")

Dominican (Order of Preachers)
Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia (Nashville Dominicans)

Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist (DSSME)

Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne


Franciscan
Franciscan Sisters, TOR

Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration

Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal


Salesian
Salesian Sisters - Daughters of Mary Help of Christians


Sisters of Life
Sisters of Life


Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT)
SOLT Sisters



Contemplative
Benedictines

Abbey of St. Walburga

Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles




Cistercians

Cistercian Nuns



Dominican (Order of Preachers)

Summit Dominicans

Order of the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts of Jesus and Mary

Sisters of the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts

Passionists

Passionist Nuns

Poor Clares (Contemplative Franciscan Spirituality)

Our Lady of the Angels Monastery

Trappistines (Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance)

Mount St. Mary's Abbey

Visitandines

Sisters of the Visitation


Some Background Information on Major Religious Orders

Benedictines

Carmelites

Dominicans (Order of Preachers)

Franciscans

1 comment:

  1. A secular institute of women is also present in the diocese of Edmonton since many years: the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate.

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