The Knights have been blessed this year by cooperating with two religious orders in support of Novices.


The first of these Orders if the Little Sisters of the Poor. The Little Sisters of the Poor have a Ministry In Denver at the Mullen House for the Aged. The Novices got thought several stages of Formation

For the stages of formation:


Postulancy: six months in one of our Homes designated as the “postulancy”- a time of adaptation which includes classes and gradual integration into the community, with some work with the elderly, followed by three months of postulancy at the novitiate house.


Novitiate: Two years, culminating in temporary vows.


After a year or two of apostolic mission in one of our Homes: a doctrinal year: “juniorate.”


After another year or so in the Home: Second novitiate, a year spent in study and prayer at our Motherhouse in France .



The Second Community that we are Fortunate enough to be associated with is the Marian Community of Reconciliation, also know as Fraternas.


The Fraternas were founded in 1991 in Lima Peru and shortly there after Cardinal Stafford invited the Community to start Apostolic work in the Denver Diocese. Once Archbishop Chaput was installed he re-extended the invitation to the Community. A community was founded in Denver on December 12,1998 (the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe).


After your period of discernment as an AMI, if a young woman discovers that God is calling her to consecrate your life to Him as a Fraterna she will enter Formation. Formation is a period in which she prepares herself for her mission.
It is a time to deepen in the knowledge of herrself and of the Sodalit Spirituality, and to grow in her love for the Church and for the vocation. It is a time when she does not work outside the community, but totally dedicate time to pray, to do exercise, to study and to learn how to live in community. It is a very special and blessed time that gives solid foundations to be prepared for the future mission!
Once she has joined the community she follows a series of steps, starting with Formation, making several promises and commitments over a time of at least seven years. After at least seven years of responding to the progressive promises and commitments, she might be ready to make your Perpetual Profession, which is final definite promise, in which she publicly profess her total apostolic availability for life in the Marian Community of Reconciliation, through the commitments of obedience, celibacy and sharing of goods.
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