Sr Miriam James Heidland announces discernment of new religious community

The author and speaker said the proposed community would bring together priests, religious sisters and laity to work towards the renewal of the Church

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A prominent Catholic Religious announced that she is discerning the creation of a new religious community seeking “the healing and renewal of the Church through the healing and renewal of the priesthood and religious life”.

Sr Miriam James Heidland, SOLT, an author, speaker and co-host of the “Abiding Together” podcast and narrator on the prayer app Hallow, announced the start of the discernment process for the new community in a September 21 post on X.

“After several years of private discernment, I would like to announce to you with great reverence and care that, with the blessing of my religious community, the Sisters of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT), and the Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, his Excellency Jeffrey S. Grob, I am officially entering into a time of public discernment of the foundation of a new religious community, Friends of the Bridegroom,” wrote Sr Heidland.

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