Discover your personal mission.
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St. Therese Institute offers a 9-month gap-year program to Catholics, aged 18-27 .
Throughout His ministry, Jesus “would slip away to deserted places and pray” (Luke 5:16). Following His example, young adults from across Canada “slip away” to this repurposed convent in Bruno, Saskatchewan, to deepen their sense of personal mission through a semi-monastic life of prayer, sacraments, and Catholic academics in joyful Christian community.
Slip away for a season. Find yourself in Christ.
Where Catholics like you find identity in Christ.
Take a year to discover your faith with young adults from across Canada!
This program changes lives.

Jacob Anderson (2019-2022)
Since coming toSt. Therese , the Lord has helped me to be grateful for so much. In prayer, community life, and classes, I have often been led to a place of awe and joyful incredulity, often catching myself thinking, ‘Can life really be this good?’

Juliana Kautz (2020-2023)
Nothing has taught me real friendship quite like community life atSt. Therese ! … The community life here has been a safe place to learn how to reorient my relationships from being selfish to selfless.

Sebastian Aguilar (2020-2022)
I had no intention [of attending] until a week before the start… I was experiencing a time of darkness. Looking back now, I see that being here is the culmination of a long search for healing. I’m right where I should be: in His merciful hands.

Sr. Kaitlyn Deck (2014-2017, 2019)
The way of life atSt. Therese taught me to encounter Jesus in each little task with a “yes”, ultimately paving the way for my vocational “yes”. Some days, my “yes” to love looks more like a “maybe”... That’s when I remember the teachings ofSt. Thérèse , how Jesus delights in my small efforts, and wants to be everything for me.

Chris O'Hara (2009-2010, Staff 2012-2015)
After attending
Danielle Gueret (2018-2019)
The moment I walked up the steps of
Déneige Courchene (2008-2009)
I didn’t realize how much of a “baby Catholic” I was. Learning what true friendship looks like, why the Church teaches all the 'crazy' stuff it teaches, to serve with a joyful heart, the art of discernment... I truly wish it was mandatory to attend a year straight out of high school!
Experience relationship with Christ through prayer and sacraments.
Through this intentional spiritual formation,
God has the perfect plan for your life.

Catholic academics to help you understand, defend, and live your faith.
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Our small class sizes make for a welcoming environment, inviting lively discussion among students. The low student-to-teacher ratio also enables our faculty to intentionally accompany students and help them both to understand the knowledge and to discover connections between knowledge and practice, opening our students to transformative moments of growth and insight.
God has the perfect plan for your life.

Become part of a joyful Christian community.
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As a result of living in this environment,

A Catholic institute like no other… in the heart of the Canadian prairies.
Our facility is a century-old former Ursuline convent and girl’s high school. The 65,000 sqft building houses our classrooms, dorms, chapel, dining room, gymnasium, offices, kitchen, meeting rooms, guest rooms, and more. Our 65 acre property is adjacent to St. Bruno RC Parish and features large stretches of lawn space, outdoor Stations of the Cross, forested pathways, and sour cherry and apple orchards.