Franciscan Poor Clares
Minneapolis, Minnesota

                                     A place of prayer south of the City

TRAVELERS 

Astronomers tell us 
to watch the sky tonight
 for an extravagance 
of shooting stars. 

They say these diving lights 
are cosmic dust brushed from 
the cloud-womb of the universe 
before the tales of time. 

We should keep an eye out 
for such venerable travelers 
who push on through the dark 
in one great fellowship of luminosity;

 Could they be calling out to us, naming their destination? 
I hope they see our faces looking up 
and take note, as we do, 
of this dark, this light, this time. 

Kate Martin, OSC

  

 

Monastery of St. Clare
8650 Russell Ave. S
Minneapolis, MN
55431-1998
phone: 952-881-4766

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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.  

At the neighboring Franciscan parish of St Bonaventure, we celebrated the Transitus of St. Clare and 50 years of prayer and Poor Clare life interdependent with our sisters and brothers of the larger community.

 

Two of our Sisters, visiting us from  our Community on Jeju Island, South Korea, were an important part of the celebration .

We pray for all the endeavors where there is cultural and religious diversity.  May they succeed in collaboration and mutuality, and in God's time, be part of the transformation of our divided world.

Sister Helen was at the organ playing the "Assisi Fanfare" for the beginning of the Service.
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