Vocations

women's religious

In our diocese, or served by women from our diocese:

Daughters of St. Paul, F.S.P.

Alexandria, VA

An international congregation of consecrated women, who as evangelizers, video and audio technicians, writers, musicians, media animators, artists, designers, printers, and radio broadcasters, announce God's word in the most effective ways possible.

Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Port Tobacco, O.C.D.
La Plata, MD

Contemplative cloistered community dedicated especially for the sanctification of priests, fidelity to a life of prayer and the evangelical counsels in the service of the Church.

Dominicans Sisters of Nashville, O.P.
(Congregation of St. Cecilia)
Woodbridge, VA

College, high school, elementary teachers who live in contemplative communities.

Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales, O.S.F.S.
Fredericksburg, VA

High school and elementary educators who live in contemplative communities.

Poor Clares, P.C.C.
Alexandria, VA

 

A cloistered, contemplative community dedicated to prayer, the Divine Office, perpetual adoration, joyous penance, poverty and simplicity.

Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist
Falls Church, VA

The members of this community are vowed religious women who embody the spirit of St. Francis and seek to enflame humanity with a sense of the sacred found deep within each person. They are dedicated to the teachings of the Holy Father and have a variety of apostolic endeavors all based on their Eucharistic devotion.

Servants of the Lord and the Virgin Matara, S.S.V.M.
Washington, D.C.

Apostolic missionary sisters dedicated to preaching the Word of God in accordance with the
Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church who collaborate in parish misions, Ignatian Spirtual Exercises retreats, catechesis, works of charity and publishing philoshophical/theological books.  They also have a branch of contemplative nuns.

Sisters of Life, S.V. (Sorores Vitae)
Archdiocese of New York

Contemplative community with apostolic pro-life work; housing and resources for crisis pregnancies, retreats for pro-lifers, education and evangelization on the sacredness of life at all stages.

Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I.H.M.
Arlington, Alexandria and Falls Church, VA

Staff and co-staff in colleges, high schools, academies, parish schools, Montessori schools and for the visually impaired in North America and two South American countries.

Adorers fo the Holy Cross, M.T.G.
Daughters of Charity, D.C.
Daughters of Wisdom, D.W.
Dominican Sisters of Hawthorn, O.P.
Dominican Sisters of Elkins Park, O.P.
Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Infant Jesus, F.M.I.J
Handmaids of Reparations of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, A.R.
Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, O.S.B.
Order of St. Benedict, O.S.B. (Benedictine Sisters of Virginia)
Pax Christi Institute, P.C.I.
Poor Sisters of St. Joseph, P.S.S.J.
Religious of the Cenacle, R.C.
Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, R.S.H.M.
Sisters in Jesus the Lord, C.J.D.
Sisters of the Holy Cross, C.S.C.
Sisters of Our Lady of La Salette, S.N.D.S.
Sisters of Notre Dame, S.N.D.
Sisters of St. Francis of Little Falls, MN, O.S.F.
Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, O.S.F.
Sisters of St. Joseph, S.S.J.