Postulancy marks the formal entrance into the life of the community. A postulant lives and prays together in the community under the guidance of a directress and may assist in the community’s apostolates while continuing to discern God’s will. 

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A “postulant” meaning “one who asks,” discerns with the community whether or not she is called to this form of life

The Postulancy offers the adequate time and place for gradual human, emotional and spiritual developmental conditions necessary for a fruitful novitiate. The Postulant sets out on the path to religious life, nourished by the word of God and the Eucharist and grow with the practice of works of mercy.( Constitution 70:27).

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Postulancy is the stage in which one feels and experiences an encounter with Christ in faith. It is a period in which she grows in authentic Christian life, to prepare herself for the experience of the Guanellian ways of the religious life. The capacity to practice the simple virtues such as loyalty, gentleness, acceptance, sincerity, trust in oneself and in others, all these are focused in the aspect of human formation.

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There is seen a gradual increase of attention to the action of God so that she can verify the call of God to religious life. Guided by the Sister directly responsible of Formation, she determines the motivation of her vocation in order to choose her future freely.

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Mostly the Formatter focuses on the greater knowledge of the spirit of the founder and a gradual insertion in the works of charity as a Guanellian.

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At the conclusion of the Postulancy, the postulant enters the novitiate and is called a novice.