WELCOME TO OUR NOVITIATE
                                                                                          The Potter's House


       

The Novitiate is a formative phase which is fundamental and delicate. It lasts for two years. The first twelve months, considered as canonical year, is spent in the Novitiate community, where the novice is given instructions on prayer and spiritual life, religious life and the vows, spirit and charism of the Congregation,  Scriptures and the Church. Lots of opportunities are also provided for her to deepen her relationship with God.

On her second year, the novice  spends four months of apostolic exposure outside the Novitiate community.  This phase of  formation has as its purpose to give the novice the opportunity to integrate her formative activities in the novitiate in the local community where she is assigned.  This will also help her see and recognize her divine vocation which is proper to the institute’s manner of living - to be formed in mind and heart by its spirit and that her intentions and suitability be tested.” The first profession of the vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience completes this stage.
   

 

          

 

  
 

 

 

Text Box: In the Potter's House, our life is a life of prayer, study, work, pastoral ministry, play and music.

 

 

Text Box: Part of our wholistic formation is play and recreation.  Everynight we have creative recreation: Monday - Interpretative dance, Tuesday - Singing, Wednesday - Card making, Thursday - games, Friday (we pray early since it is a day of silence and fasting for us), Saturday - story-telling on the lives of the saints, or the classical reading materials we have read or a quizbee competition, Sunday - the Lord's day, in the afternoon we have a long recreation where we play sports game such as ball games and the like. On special months such as the months of June and October where we celebrate the death anniversary of our Founder, Fr. Louis Chauvet and our foundation day respectively, we recall and retell our story in a form of a short presentation.   Text Box: After our catechism classes we take the jeep to go to the Vigil House, where our old sisters pray and rest. Here, we help  take care of our very old sisters. We pray with them, read to them the scriptures, walk them around in the garden, sing with them their favorite Marian songs or simply listen to their profound wisdom as they share their vocation story. Text Box: Tuesday is our Pastoral Ministry day. We rise very early in the morning to pray our Morning Praise then we go to  Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage Cathedral to animate the early morning liturgy. Afterwards we drop by at Our Lady of Peace School to take a hurried breakfast then off we go to Sumulong and San Antonio Elementary Schools to teach catechism. In these Schools we teach the children about Jesus' love and prepare them to receive the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Eucharist. Sometimes we also facilitate their  baptism if they  did not receive yet this sacrament.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Everyday we have an hour of prayer to deepen our encounter with Jesus. On Saturday evenings, we have a special  Compline where we cap the week's activity in worship and thanksgiving and look forward for Sunday's liturgical celebration. We also pray our rosary everyday in different languages: Monday - Tagalog, Tuesday - Latin, Wednesday - Spanish or Italian, Thursday - French, Friday - English, Saturday - dialect and Sunday - English.  

 

 

Text Box: On Monday mornings we go for our gardening. We also learn how to sew. Actually we are the ones sewing our gray habits and veils. This is just one of the many hidden work - our mission of love,  we do in the Potter's House. We are learning and enjoying our hidden life - the Nazareth years of our formation.