Magnificat House of Discernment welcomes new women

“This has been a house where laughter has reigned,” Mount Carmel Sister Beth Fitzpatrick said recently at the Magnificat House of Discernment for women during a transition week in June when young women considering religious life were moving on to new adventures and vacating their rooms for new discerners.

When it opened in August 2012, five women had moved in to discern a religious vocation. One now will explore religious life with an order; another will live in community as a ministry team member at the Archdiocese of New Orleans Retreat House; the remaining three have chosen another path.