The four newly professed sisters with Monsignor Wach, our Reverend Mother, and the Novice MistressProcession out of the churchFinal blessingElevationThe newly professed sisters hold lit candles during the Canon of the MassThe celebrant is incensed first followed by all others in order of dignityThe Holy Gospel is incensedThe schola sings the gradual and the AlleluiaChanting of the epistleHoly Mass follows the ceremony.All stand to chant the Magnificat in thanksgivingThe vows are then given to Monsignor and placed on the altar, and Monsignor gives his blessing to each sisterEach sister signs her vowsThe sisters return, wearing the black veilThe black veil is placed upon the head of each sisterThe sisters then receive the Cross of profession, modeled after the pectoral Cross worn by Saint Francis de SalesEach sister kneels before Monsignor with a lit candle and professes her vows of poverty, chastity, and obedienceMonsignor blesses the black veilsAfter further questioning the sisters and praying for them, Monsignor blesses the crossesThe crosses that will soon be blessed.“We have voluntarily stripped ourselves of worldly habits; with help of God, we will never return. We have turned away from vanity, and having washed our feet of it, we will never return.”Monsignor Wach, prior general, asks: “Have you firmly established in your heart, under no obligation, but with the liberty of your will, to keep obedience, chastity, and poverty for Our Lord Jesus Christ?”Each sister states her intention: “I ask, for the love of God our Savior, to be received in the sacred engagements in the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest… by obedience, chastity, and poverty.”The four sisters who will be professing their vows enter into the churchEntrance processionThe chapel prepared for the ceremonyHis Excellency meets the sisters who will be professing their vowsOur Reverend Mother and the sisters gather to welcome His Excellency Bishop Athanasius Schneider
