membership

"Listen, O Daughter, and incline the ear of your heart!"
(Rule of St. Benedict)

"When a woman receives and accepts the monastic charism, she freely chooses to participate in a conversion which is a gradual passing over from death to life in union with God through Jesus Christ." (Call to Life - Constitutions of the Federation of St. Scholastica) For such a woman accepting the call to vowed monastic life, Benedict gives a succinct guideline - "that she truly seek God!"

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