For over a hundred years women have followed a specific spirituality in the footsteps of St Benedict and John Bede Polding OSB the first Archbishop of Australia. What, then, does it mean to live as a woman who vows to follow this path, to live this spirituality, as a Sister of the Good Samaritan? How do the Vows that a Sister makes at her profession (a public ceremony where she makes her vows) impact on how she lives and who she becomes?
READ
WATCH
Exploring Religious Life With Sarah Puls SGS
LISTEN
Admonition at the First Profession of Kabiriera and Taabeia Ibouri
St Scholastica’s Chapel Glebe, 26 September 2020
by Patty Fawkner SGS Superior
Read by Christine Manning SGS
REFLECT
After reading, watching and hearing about the vowed life of a Sister of the Good Samaritan, find a comfortable space, play the accompanying reflective music and consider the questions posed in “Reflection: A Vowed Life”
Music by Chris Dutton
PRAY
GOING DEEPER
Michael Casey Prayer
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING
Further Reading
Schniders, S. (2001) Selling All: Commitment, Consecrated Celibacy and Community in Religious Life. Paulist Press
Chittister, J. (2011) The Radical Christian Life: A year with Saint Benedict. Liturgical Press (available on Kindle)
