Franciscan Poor Clares of Minneapolis, MN

Greetings to all of you from all of us. We have nothing to sell on our site but we have something to share with you. As modern Franciscans we know our life is meant to be not “alone with the great Alone” but wonderfully, messily, delightfully interpersonal, as we like to say “circles upon circles of relationships.” We believe that the stuff of life is revelatory, full of signs pointing to deeper realities. Our nickname is Poor Clares. We think this is a great name because we experience that it is good to live with open hands, holding our gifts and graces commonly with all our brothers and sisters. Our life is a life of prayer, as is true for many of you. In prayer we live in relationship. There is the circle of the Sisters who live here at the monastery. There is the ever expanding, contracting, expanding circle of those who worship with us and those who call or write. The circles go on to include our friends and their concerns throughout our world. At the center of all the circles is our relational God who creates the circle and is the source of our relationships. The Center holds.

We recently celebrated the anniversary of the founding of our monastery in Bloomington, a suburb of Minneapolis. During the fifty years from our founding, the Community has branched out to Korea and Michigan.

Srs. Diane, Laurene, Bernadone and Laura from our Poor Clare Community in Saginaw, Michigan,  You can visit them at http://srsclare.com