SSPX Sisters' Professions and Taking of the Habit: Browerville 2025

Sunday April 27, 2025, Sunday in Albis or Quasimodo Sunday, a Solemn High Mass officiated by Fr. Alexander Wiseman took place at the Sacred Heart Novitiate in Browerville, Minnesota. During the Mass, the taking of the habit, religious professions, and a perpetual profession of the Sisters of the Society Saint Pius X occurred.

During the ceremony, four postulants took the religious habit and entered the novitiate proper after the six months of postulancy. Three novices, having completed their formation, made their first religious vows. Finally, one professed sister made her perpetual vows. Deo gratias!

Founded in 1974,  Sisters of the Society of Saint Pius X was established to facilitate the apostolate of the priests of the SSPX. The founders, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and his sister, Mother Marie-Gabriel Lefebvre, were both missionaries in the Congregation of the Holy Ghost prior to the Society's establishment.

The soul of the Sisters’ apostolate is found at the foot of the altar, with daily assistance at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, which is the source of the Sisters’ strength in their complete gift of self. The Sisters also commit to an hour of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament where they intercede for priests and the Church’s hierarchy. Following Our Lady of Compassion as their principal patron, the Sisters offer themselves in union with the Divine Victim for the salvation of souls, especially those of priests.

The Sacred Heart Novitiate, located in Browerville, Minnesota, is currently the seat of the English-language novitiate of the Sisters of the Society Saint Pius X.

These religious Sisters consecrate themselves to God through the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. These vows are made after two and a half years of formation in one of the four novitiates, that is, houses of formation for the Sisters established in France, Germany, the United States, and Argentina.

In 2025, the Congregation of the Sisters of the Society Saint Pius X numbered  245 professed sisters in 30 communities throughout 10 countries: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, the United States, Argentina, Gabon, the Dominican Republic, and Australia.