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Novitiate
Novitiate is a response to God's call. It indicates that you have reached the human and spiritual maturity that allows you to respond to this call with sufficient and proper responsibility and freedom.
Novitiate begins when you have completed your postulancy and are invested in the religious habit. It lasts at least one year and may be extended depending upon your readiness for profession of temporary vows.
The novitiate year is devoted to the foundations of the spiritual life. It combines intensive prayer with instruction on spiritual direction, Franciscan history and spirituality, prayer, religious vows, and the Rule and Constitutions of the Third Order.
At the end of the novitiate, you will make temporary vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience for two years. Thereafter, you will renew your temporary vows until you are eligible to profess solemn vows, which are perpetually binding. A friar is ordinarily in temporary vows for four to five years.
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Fr. Bernard Tickerhoof, TOR,
Director of Novices
Province of the
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
Bro. Richard Boland, TOR
Bro. Richard Fornwalt, TOR
Bro. Nathan Meckey, TOR
Bro. Paul Norman, TOR
Bro. Jared Weaver, TOR
Province of the Immaculate Conception
Bro. Corey Smoot, TOR
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