For Handmaids, formation includes different stages in which, through the action of the Spirit, the woman in formation becomes more and more committed to God, to herself, to the community, and to the mission. Learning to be a Handmaid in the style of Saint Raphaela means growing in interior freedom and in human and affective maturity, as well as internalizing the art of discernment. This is what allows her to be an apostle in mission, free to inhabit any portion of the Kingdom to which she is sent.