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Our Lady of Confidence Carmelite Monastery

Our Lady of Confidence Carmelite Monastery is home to the nuns of the Discalced Order of Carmelites, who lead a cloistered life dedicated to prayer, work, and contemplation.

Poor Clares of New York

In our loving community of Sisters here in Wappingers Falls, New York we work together, pray together and play together, setting aside of course, those private times of solitude needed by each Sister to develop and deepen her own inner life.

Discalced Carmelites of Armstrong

We are cloistered contemplative nuns of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, an Order rich in its heritage of saints among whom we find three Doctors of the Church.

Poor Clare Nuns of Andover

As Poor Clares, we are enclosed, Franciscan, contemplative nuns who observe the First Rule of St. Clare. Our charism is centered on the love and contemplation of Jesus, in sisterly fraternity, and in intercessory prayer for the Church and world.

Monte Maria Monastery of the Visitation

In 1610 St Francis de Sales and St Jane de Chantal founded the order of the Visitation of Holy Mary to give to God souls so interior that they may be found worthy to serve Him in spirit and in truth. Our order was established to welcome those not able to practice austerities required in other orders.

Sisters of the Visitation of Philadelphia

This community is one of about 160 autonomous monasteries of the worldwide contemplative Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, founded on June 6 1610 in Annecy, France, by St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane Frances de Chantal. The monastery is strictly contemplative with papal enclosure and solemn vows.

Discalced Carmelites of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Launceston Carmel was founded from Glen Osmond Adelaide in June 1948 at Longford, Tasmania. The community moved to the present monastery built in the hills of West Launceston in April 1975 at the request of the then Archbishop Guilford Young to be nearer the priests and people.

Dominican Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery

Corpus Christi Monastery is the oldest Dominican monastery in the United States, a 125 year old branch of the first monastery of nuns founded by St. Dominic de Guzman in Prouilhe, France, in 1206. Our vocation places usIn Medio Ecclesiae, in the heart of the Church, the heart of the Order.

Discalced Carmelites of Des Plaines

Called to be contemplatives, absorbed in God alone, Carmelites are also called to be at the service of the Church and of all people. The ascent of Mount Carmel is a call to face the challenge of prophecy and contemplation.

Discalced Carmelites of St. Joseph

Currently, 17 women between 22 and 95 call the Carmel of St. Joseph home. Individually and communally our lives are centered on God. Everything in our lives is focused on a life of prayer, centered around the daily celebration of the Eucharist.

Discalced Carmelites of the Infant Jesus of Prague and St. Joseph

We are consecrated women of the Teresian Carmel living in sisterly communion, holding the lamp of contemplation until we become a living flame of love. We are cloistered Carmelite nuns, called to live the Gospel and the charism of Saint Teresa through a hidden life of unceasing contemplative prayer in the service of the Church.

Hermits of St. Mary of Carmel

We are Hermits of the Little Way of Merciful Love of St Thérèse, living as a community of Carmelite Hermits, joined together by mutual charity for material and spiritual support and stability.

Discalced Carmelites of Terre Haute

Discalced Carmelites of Santa Fe

This is a cloistered community of contemplative prayer in which the sisters live their lives for God and for His Church. The call to Carmel is a call to serve the Church through prayer and sacrifice. The sisters' charism is guided by their foundress, St. Teresa of Avila, and by St. John of the Cross.

Discalced Carmelites of St. Teresa of Jesus

The Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the first Order dedicated to the Mother of God. We draw our inspiration from the prophet Elijah. The Carmelite nuns live as desert hermits in communities that are small and family-like after the express wish of St. Teresa of Jesus, the 16th century reformer of Carmel.

Discalced Carmelites of Our Mother of Mercy and St. Joseph

Working in silence and solitude, a Carmelite strives for union with her Beloved, offering her prayers and sacrifices for souls, especially for priests. Living in strict papal enclosure, her life reminds the world that there is another life for which we must now prepare.

Discalced Carmelites of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Discalced Carmelite nuns seek union with God by a consecrated life of prayer and self-sacrifice, striving to live the evangelical counsels as perfectly as possible in the spirit of their foundress, Sts. Teresa of Avila, and John of the Cross.

Discalced Carmelites of the Infant Jesus of Prague

We gratefully count ourselves blessed to be daughters of the Church, in the spirit of our foundress Saint Teresa of Jesus, with love for priests and for souls, obedience to the Magisterium, and fidelity to our Carmelite heritage.

Discalced Carmelites of St. Therese of Lisieux

The intention of St. Teresa of Avila, the Carmelite's foundress, was that the sisters' lives should be entirely directed toward prayer and contemplation, that all observe the evangelical counsels, in a small sisterly community founded on solitude, prayer and strict poverty. The call to Carmel is a call to serve the Church through prayer and sacrifice.

Discalced Carmelites of Danvers

Prayer, silence, and contemplation make up our community life. We attend morning Mass, pray the divine office six times a day, and spend two hours in mental prayer. We also do the manual labor of the house. We are a cloistered community in which we live our lives for God and for His Church.

Carmel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Although Carmel is enclosed, it is essentially missionary and active through contemplative prayer. Since these nuns live in Utah, which is predominantly Mormon, the Catholic diocese living in a spiritual desert needs the witness and support of the nuns' contemplative life.

Discalced Carmelites of Carmel

The Carmelite Monastery of Carmel, California, nestled close to the Santa Lucia foothills overlooking the Pacific Ocean, provides a distinctively beautiful ambience for a joyful life of prayer in a contemplative community of women, consecrated to Jesus through solemn vows.

Carmelites of Our Lady of Grace

Our life is one of loving prayer, fed by liturgy, silence, solitude, challenging and joyful community support. We place our hearts in that of Mary, following in the footsteps of her Son toward deeper union with God for the life of the world.

Discalced Carmelites of Cristo Rey

The Carmel of St. Teresa is a contemplative monastery of consecrated women of the Discalced Carmelite Order. The vocation of a Carmelite Nun is a call to a "hidden union with God" in friendship with Christ and in familiarity with the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Carmelites

Mary Shaffer

July 19, 2018

San Francisco, California

OCD, Discalced, Marian, bilingual, Spanish speaking, espanol, older vocations, papal enclosure, priests

Carmelites of the Carmel of Mary

The Carmelite Nuns share with the whole Carmelite Family a single common charism being the commitment to "live in allegiance to Jesus Christ" in a contemplative stance, which marks and sustains our life of prayer, community and service lived in intimate familiarity with the Holy Virgin and in the prophetic spirit of Elijah.

Visitation Monastery of Mobile

The Visitation, a contemplative order, was founded by St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane de Chantal "to give to God daughters of prayer, and souls so interior that they may be found worthy to serve His infinite majesty and to adore Him in spirit and in truth." Prayer is primary in the life of the sisters.

Visitation Monastery of Tyringham

Visitation Monastery of Toledo

Visitation Monastery of Snellville

St. Francis de Sales, our Founder, desired to "give God daughters of prayer, and souls so interior, that they may be found worthy to serve His infinite Majesty, and to adore Him in spirit and in truth."

Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood

Devoted to a life of contemplation, the mottoes of the community are: "Adoration, Reparation and Suffering" and "Fidelity, Constancy and Generosity". The sisters' life of prayer is a true living of the Gospel and it is in every way apostolic.

Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood

The Sisters are a community called to a life of contemplative prayer, directed in a special way to the great love which Jesus showed to all mankind in the shedding of His Precious Blood.

Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters of the Convent of Christ the King

God, through His Spirit, Who is Love, has called us and gathered us together into a religious community whose members are entirely dedicated to the contemplative life and the service of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and thus to serve the Church's missionary activity.

Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters of the Convent of Divine Love

Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters of Corpus Christi

Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters of Mount Grace Convent

Passionist Nuns of St. Louis

Passionist Nuns "are to strive for perfection in God's love by living in His Divine Presence and by preserving indelibly written in their hearts the most holy Life, Passion and Death of the loving Jesus.

Dominican Nuns of Our Lady of Mount Thabor Monastery

The community of Our Lady of Mount Thabor Monastery is a group of women called by the Church to live the joy filled Monastic life of community, prayer, work, silence and study for the sanctification of souls.

Dominican Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery

Cloistered contemplative life: faithful to the teachings of the Magisterium of the Church and observing Papal enclosure. The celebration of the Eucharist is central to our daily life. An important focus is praise and adoration before the Blessed Sacrament, and choral celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours at prescribed times.

Handmaids of the Precious Blood

The Handmaids are cloistered contemplatives dedicated to the honor, praise and worship of God. By our hidden apostolate, we extend the arms of prayer and sacrifice around the world, with a special solicitude for God's priests.

Poor Clares of San Damiano Monastery of St. Clare

Clare and her sisters joyfully embraced a life of poverty, prayer and contemplation, solitude and seclusion that they might serve the Lord and His church through this holy manner of living as Francis had foretold. This life continues today in our little monastery of San Damiano on Ft. Myers Beach, Florida.

Poor Clares, Order of Saint Clare

Mary Shaffer

June 28, 2018

Fort Meyers Beach, Florida

Poor Clares, OSC, adoration, Franciscan, poverty, Primitive Observance, older vocations, papal enclosure

Poor Clare Monastery of St. Clare of the Immaculate Conception

Our charism is to observe the poverty and humility of our Lord Jesus Christ and His Most Holy Mother, living the Gospel life as followers of St. Clare and St. Francis, in contemplative community of charity and unity within the enclosure.

Poor Clares, Order of Saint Clare

Mary Shaffer

June 28, 2018

St. Louis, Missouri

Poor Clares, OSC, adoration, Franciscan, poverty, Primitive Observance, older vocations, papal enclosure

Bethlehem Monastery of Poor Clares

The Poor Clares of Barhamsville are a cloistered, monastic community following the inspiration of St. Francis of Assisi and his faithful disciple, St. Clare. We seek the face of God as He reveals Himself in the Liturgy of the Church, our contemplation of the Eucharist and the Scriptures.

Poor Clares, Poor Clare Colettines

Mary Shaffer

June 27, 2018

Barhamsville, Virginia

Poor Clares, adoration, Franciscan, poverty, PCC, Colettine, papal enclosure, older vocations

Poor Clare Colettines of Annunciation Monastery

Our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, encapsulates in "Verbi Sponsa" what our community strives for in our vocation: "Welcoming the Word in faith and adoring silence, they put themselves at the service of the mystery of the Incarnation and united to Christ in the mystery of Redemption." We live a life of prayer in the spirit of the Franciscan Saint Clare.

Poor Clares, Poor Clare Colettines

Mary Shaffer

June 7, 2018

Minooka, Illinois

Poor Clares, adoration, Franciscan, poverty, PCC, Colettine, Minooka, Joliet, older vocations, papal enclosure

Poor Clare Colettines of Cleveland

Our Poor Clare family is made up of cloistered contemplative nuns who serve the church and the world mainly by a life of prayer, and our extern sisters who are also called to minister to the community by meeting its external needs.

Poor Clares, Poor Clare Colettines

Mary Shaffer

June 7, 2018

Cleveland, Ohio

Poor Clares, adoration, Franciscan, poverty, PCC, Colettine, Cleveland, older vocations, papal enclosure

Poor Clare Colettines of Maria Regina Mater Monastery

We are cloistered, contemplative Poor Clares who follow the reform of St. Colette of Corbie. Our life is one of praise and adoration of God, as well as prayer and penance on behalf of the Church and the world. In the spirit of St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi, we strive to foster a joyful community of charity, together with the sisters the Lord has given to us.

Poor Clares, Poor Clare Colettines

Mary Shaffer

June 7, 2018

Kokomo, Indiana

Poor Clares, adoration, Franciscan, poverty, PCC, Colettine, older vocations, papal enclosure

Poor Clare Colettines of Santa Barbara

The Order of Poor Clare Colettines is an institute of the enclosed contemplative life ordained in a special way for the praise and worship of God. This is fulfilled principally through daily Mass, celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours seven times a day (this includes midnight rising), and Eucharistic adoration.

Poor Clares, Poor Clare Colettines

Mary Shaffer

June 7, 2018

Santa Barbara, California

Poor Clares, adoration, Franciscan, poverty, PCC, Colettine, older vocations, papal enclosure, priests

Poor Clare Colettines of the Monastery of Our Lady of Mercy

Following in the footsteps of their foundress, St. Clare of Assisi, these Poor Clare sisters live an enclosed life of prayer and penance, in solitude and silence, occupied with God alone, urged on by love for the whole people of God. Centered in Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, their life revolves around the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Divine Office and Eucharistic adoration.

Poor Clares, Poor Clare Colettines

Mary Shaffer

June 7, 2018

Belleville, Illinois

Poor Clares, adoration, Franciscan, poverty, PCC, Colettine, older vocations, papal enclosure

Poor Clare Colettines of the Monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe

As daughters of Saints Francis and Clare, we cherish their legacy of burning love for Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, steadfast loyalty to the Vicar of Christ and Holy Church, and a life of joyous Gospel poverty. Our daily life of prayer, work and recreation revolves around Holy Mass and the Divine Office, beginning each midnight with the Office of Matins.

Poor Clares, Poor Clare Colettines

Mary Shaffer

June 7, 2018

Roswell, New Mexico

Poor Clares, adoration, Franciscan, poverty, PCC, Colettine, Mother Mary Francis, older vocations, papal enclosure

Poor Clare Nuns of St. Clare's Monastery

The Poor Clares of the Primitive Observance are a cloistered, contemplative order, seeking union with God through a life of prayer and sacrifice, in the spirit of St. Clare, to whom St. Francis was mentor and guide.

Poor Clares, Order of Saint Clare

Mary Shaffer

June 6, 2018

Sauk Rapids, Minnesota

Poor Clares, OSC, adoration, Franciscan, poverty, Primitive Observance, older vocations, papal enclosure

Poor Clare Nuns of the Franciscan Monastery of St. Clare

As Poor Clares observing the First Rule of Saint Clare, we are enclosed, Franciscan, contemplative nuns. Our charism is centered in the love and contemplation of Jesus, in sisterly unity, and in intercessory prayer for the Church and world.