Why Choose St. Therese?

Your St. Therese year will be one-of-a-kind

What makes your time here special?

St. Therese Institute is the only place in Canada (and maybe the world!) where you find post-secondary Catholic studies in a monastic-style community.

The program will change your life, as you:

Discover your truest identity, which is in Christ, by discerning your own God-given gifts and building your vision of the mission you were created for;
Are led through an incredible personal and spiritual formation process, with one-to-one mentoring;
Have 24/7 access to the Blessed Sacrament and have Adoration, Mass, Rosary, Liturgy of the Hours, and personal prayer time each day;
Receive affordable and magisterially-aligned Catholic post-secondary courses, which earn transfer credits that can be used at other partner institutions for further study;
Develop bonds of friendship like you’ve never experienced before.

If you want to experience this life-changing place for yourself…come and see! Call us at 306-369-2555 to book your personal visit or register for one of our scheduled Come & See open house weeks.

What's the purpose?

Why spend nine months in a gap year program when you could be earning money at work or getting a degree at a big university?

The most important project you will ever undertake is your own life. Yet many people, who would stop and draw up plans for a spring break trip or a simple building project, will nevertheless dive into life itself without real plan or direction. This is why many come to crisis by midlife. They discover, unfortunately late, that even their impressive accomplishments have not given them purpose. Only identity and mission can do that, and you need to take time to understand and embrace those things.

Take the time to stop and put the most important pieces together now at the start of your adult life. You don’t have to do it at St. Therese, but you have to do it somewhere. This is a place where we study, pray, and recreate in community, in a way that invites God to reveal his plans for us and our lives. Knowing your deepest identity and mission, first, empowers everything else you’ll ever do.

“If the years of your youth are to serve their purpose in life, they must be a time of generous commitment, whole-hearted dedication, and sacrifices that are difficult but ultimately fruitful.”

Pope Francis, paragraph 108 of Christus Vivit (Christ is Alive)

Alumni Testimonies

Preparation for Marriage, Family, and Work

“The sense of identity and peace that I received through formation at St. Therese is something I carry into my everyday life. I could not do the work that I do without the knowledge that I am known and loved by God and that the small actions I take have inherent purpose when they are done with love.”

Hannah Connelly Chartier, Alumna from 2016-18, wife, mother of one, and doing masters studies in counseling.

Discerning God’s Call to Priesthood or Religious Life

“Attending St. Therese built the foundation within me to come to know, love, and serve the Lord. I am forever grateful for that year and it having brought me to discern and continue pursuing priesthood.”

Fr. Serge Buissé, Alumus from 2013-14, diocese of St. Boniface.

A truly Catholic Experience

St. Therese Institute is not the place to find watered-down theology or a laissez-faire attitude toward growing in holiness. We follow the Magisterium of the Church and teach Catholic academics rooted in Scripture and Tradition. We are Latin Rite Catholics but try to incorporate elements of eastern Catholicism, for “The Church must breathe with her two lungs” of the east and west, as Pope St. John Paul II suggested in paragraph 54 of Ut Unum Sint (That They May Be One).

We operate with the permission of our local Bishop and attend Mass at our local parish of St. Bruno.

Call our office at 306-369-2555 for any further questions you have, or Request More Information!