Contact

Mother Marie Colette P.C.C.
Vocation Contact
28210 Natoma Rd
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022-3220

650-948-2947
www.poorclareslosaltos.org

1950

Year Founded

20

Members

18-35

Age Range

Autonomous

Generalate

Dioceses

San Jose, CA

Mission

This order of Poor Clares is an institute of the contemplative life directed in a special way for the praise and worship of God. It strives to give witness to Christ praying on the mountain and to share in the most universal way the hardships, miseries and hopes of all mankind. The sisters live a life of prayer, in the spirit of the Franciscan Saint Clare.

Qualifications

Good physical and mental health; sufficient personal maturity, particularly psychological and emotional which will support the desire to give yourself totally to the Lord in the Franciscan-Clarian adventure of the cloistered contemplative life.

Formation

All formation of the nuns is done at the monastery. Formation progresses from aspirancy to postulancy to novitiate, to temporary profession, and then to solemn profession. The entire formation program lasts up to nine years.

Province

Mary Immaculate Federation

International

Poor Clares are worldwide.