At this stage, which corresponds to the exodus experience, the young woman leaves her family and begins to live in an SMR formation community. 

"Lord, show me your ways and teach me your paths" Psalm 25,4

This stage relates to the experience of conversion, in order to welcome God's action in her life and to begin a process of detachment from everything that prevents her from living her call to follow Jesus. Its purpose is to help the novice grow in knowledge and love of the Lord. It is therefore a time of grace.

The novitiate marks the official beginning of religious life. It is a time of preparation to commit to the three vows of poverty, chastity and obedience in the Congregation.

It is a time of grace in order to have the liberating experience of self-knowledge, a passionate experience of Jesus in His work of reparation, an experience of international community and an insertion into the complex reality of today's world, looking at it as God sees it.

The time of novitiate ends with the profession of First Vows, marked by a simple celebration, where the novice publicly expresses her decision to follow Christ by living the charism of Marie Reparatrice.

This stage corresponds to "entering the Promised Land". The juniorate is a time of maturing and deepening the desire to surrender oneself totally to God and consequently to one's brothers and sisters.

It is the experience of feeling seduced by Christ of making Him the centre of one's life, embracing the cause of the Kingdom in favour of the poorest and neediest, as He himself did.

Take Lord, and receive all my liberty,
my memory, my understanding
and my entire will,
all that I have and call my own.

You have given all to me.
To you, Lord, I return it

Everything is yours; do with it what you will.
Give me only your love and your grace,
that is enough for me.

Saint Ignatius of Loyola 
1491-1556

Several years after making perpetual vows, we make our tertianship, where we spend a few months deepening and maturing our vocation, through the "school of the heart".

During this period of more profound spiritual discernment…the sisters review their lived experience in a new light, their relationship with God, their community and apostolic life in order to integrate them better for a more effective service in the future. (Constitutions 113)

«Besides encouraging our growth in the spiritual life and bringing our knowledge up to date, ongoing formation is also an effort towards adapting to new ways of thinking and new methods of apostolate in a constantly evolving world, while remaining faithful to our mission». (Constitutions 117)