# A New Novitiate for the Consoling Sisters, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX

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Podcast: [Sermons of Fr Paul Robinson SSPX](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sermons-of-fr-paul-robinson-sspx-1384279)
Published: 2026-01-22T15:39:09+00:00
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#catholic #sspx On this Second Sunday after Epiphany, it is customary to speak about the sacrament of matrimony, because of the Gospel about the wedding feast at Cana. Today, however, I would like to speak about a different kind of marriage, the union that exists between Christ and His Spouses in the religious life. We have this incredible blessing here at St. Isidore’s that the Consoling Sisters are planning to build a novitiate. This will be a place where young women will be prepared to become spouses of Christ. They will be prepared to enter into a way of life that has existed from the earliest days of the Church, wherein young ladies forego marrying and having a family in order to give their lives completely to Christ. There are three stages at every novitiate: first is the postulancy, which is the period of time when the young lady comes to the novitiate and adjusts to the life there. This usually lasts for six months. Second is the novitiate. It is started by the young lady taking the religious habit and receiving a religious name. The novitiate is a time for her to practice in earnest the three religious vows and for her to be trained in the religious life by the mistress of novices. The novitiate typically lasts for two years. The third stage is the taking of vows, also known as the first profession. That is the day when the young lady approaches the altar and binds herself to the three vows of religion for the first time. She takes the vow of poverty, whereby she can only use material things under the direction of her superior; the vow of chastity, whereby she does not seek any earthly love but only the love of Christ; and the vow of obedience, whereby she submits her will to the will of her superiors. She makes these three vows in order to give herself to Chr…

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