Capuchin Poor Clare Sisters in USA
Welcome
Welcome to the official website of the Capuchin Poor Clare Sisters in the United States! We are contemplative religious women living a life dedicated to prayer, silence, and sisterly communion across our five monasteries. Journey with us into the heart of our vocation, where we seek God through a life of simplicity, poverty, and joyful penance, interceding for the Church and the world.
We invite you to learn about our vocation of prayer, our Franciscan-Clarian heritage, and the ways in which our life of silence and intercession serves the Church and the world.
We are contemplative Sisters. We offer our prayer and worship to God in favor of God’s people
Is the Lord calling you to dedicate your life to God?
We live in community, embracing joyfully a life of poverty and fraternity. We are contemplative sisters whose lives revolve around prayer, manual work, study and silence, all for the greater glory of God. Following the example of Christ, who lived a hidden life in Nazareth with Mary his Mother, we live a cloistered life. This enclosure is a visible sign of our total consecration to God. If you think that God might be calling you to be a Capuchin Poor Clare, see our page for vocations.
Our daily schedule as Capuchin Poor Clare sisters includes :
As a contemplative community, personal prayer and liturgy are at the center of our lives. We gather several times a day for communal prayer. Our liturgies are simple and reverent, with a focus on contemplative silence, personal prayer, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and participation in Holy Eucharist.
Do you perceive that Jesus is Calling you to follow him?
Do you want to consecrate your life to God as a Capuchin Sister
If you’re interested in learning more about our Capuchin Poor Clare Sisters way of life, please contact us. To set up a visit to one of our monasteries, see the Contact information on the upper links.
Fraternal Live
A very important element of our Charisma as Capuchin Poor Clare Sisters is living in fraternal life
The Lord is Risen Alleluia!
“Be filled with a remarkable happiness and a spiritual joy! Contempt of the world has pleased you more than its honors, poverty more than earthly riches, and you have sought to store up greater treasures in heaven rather than on earth, where rust does not consume nor moth destroy, nor thieves break in and steal.”(St Clare)
Journey with us through these images that illuminate the vital role of prayer in the sister’s life and the profound joy of answering God’s call through her entrance into the novitiate. May her example encourage those discerning their own vocation and deepen the faith of all who view them.
“May the Lord bless you and keep you. May He show His face to you and be merciful to you. May He turn His countenance to you and give you peace. I, Clare, a handmaid of Christ, a little plant of our holy Father Francis, a sister and mother of you and the other Poor Sisters, although unworthy, ask our Lord Jesus Christ through His mercy and through the intercession of His most holy Mother Mary, of Blessed Michael the Archangel and all the holy angels of God, and of all His men and women saints, that the heavenly Father give you and confirm for you this most holy blessing in heaven and on earth.” Saint Clare
We adored you Lord Jesus Christ!
Sisters in prayer
Happy Easter!
The Lord is Risen, Alleluia!!
Step into a sacred space and share in the moments of prayer that nourish our sister’s soul. These photographs also capture the grace and hope of her entrance into the novitiate, a significant milestone in her spiritual calling. Join us in celebrating her dedication and the unfolding of God’s plan in her life.
Saint Clare Lover of the Poor and Crucify Lord Jesus
“O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her! O holy poverty, to those who possess and desire you God promises the kingdom of heaven and offers, indeed, eternal glory and blessed life! O God-centered poverty, whom the Lord Jesus Christ who ruled and now rules heaven and earth, who spoke and things were made, condescended to embrace before all else!”
Saint Clare
“What a great laudable exchange: to leave the things of time for those of eternity, to choose the things of heaven for the goods of earth, to receive the hundred-fold in place of one, and to possess a blessed and eternal life.”
Saint Clare
