What is Discernment?
Discernment is much more than making everyday choices about what we do or where we go. It is a sacred process of deepening our relationship with God and learning to listen with the heart and to trust the gentle movements of the Spirit within us.
Through discernment, we are invited to:
• See our lives as God sees them — with compassion and purpose.
• Recognize the deep desires planted in our hearts and allow them to be shaped by God’s dream for us.
• Freely and lovingly respond to the path where God’s Spirit leads.
Spiritual Tools for Discerning a Religious Vocation
Discernment grows through prayer, reflection, and companionship. The resources below can help you to listen more deeply and recognize how God is moving in your life.
Further Resources
Articles on Discernment from IgnatianSpirituality.com
Consciousness Examen by George Aschenbrenner, SJ
Online Ignatian Retreat
Five Signs God is Calling You to a Vocation
Four Helpful Rules for Discernment
Discern Your Vocation with One Simple Hack
Entering the Convent at Age 23
Video Course: The Life of Euphrasie Barbier with Sister Claire Himbault RNDM
Vocational Discernment Group 2025-2026
Discover your purpose through faith, connection, and service.
This year, the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, Canada Province invite young people to journey in faith and discover how God may be calling them. Through monthly gatherings, prayer, and shared reflection, participants learn to listen deeply, grow in community, and explore the call to religious life, marriage, or single service.
This is a space to grow, pray, and serve — together discovering the joy of walking where the Spirit leads.
The Summons Dance:
The International RNDMs Mission in Canada
To mark July 26, the date when many RNDM Sisters in the Canadian province made first vows, the Sisters who gathered for the Summer Learning Symposium 2024 presented this dance.
They gathered near the Celebration Maple tree, planted in 2023, at the end of our annual Assembly, to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the first RNDM Sisters arriving from France.
We offer this song/dance/prayer, as an invitation to young women who may sense God calling their names, calling them to be a Sister of Our Lady of the Missions. Come join us.
Will you come and follow me
If I but call your name?
Will you go where you don’t know
And never be the same?
Will you let my love be shown,
Will you let my name be known,
Will you let my life be grown
In you and you in me?
The Summons – Iona Community. John Bell.
Full lyrics available at: https://wordtoworship.com/song/9563
Connect with Us
For more information, please contact us:
Vocations Director, Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions
393 Gaboury Place
Winnipeg, MB, Canada
R2H 0L5
Phone: (204) 786-6051
Fax: (204) 691-0640
Email: canrndm@shaw.ca
Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions
393 Gaboury Place
Winnipeg, MB
Canada
R2H 0L5
Phone: (204) 786-6051
Fax: (204) 691-0640
General Inquiries: canrndm@shaw.ca
Website Support: admin@rndmcanada.org