[We invite you to join us as we begin the Novena of St. Clare on Aug. 2nd and to join us, as well, on Aug. 10th and 11th as we celebrate her Solemnity. Scroll down for details] Lately I have been considering how Our Holy Mother Clare responded when Saracens threatened to invade the [...]
For the last year, Leslee has been discerning with our community. And so it was with great joy and with profound gratitude to Our Lord that we welcomed her into our Community as a Postulant on October 27th. Below are some photos from her entrance. Kindly keep Leslee and her family in your prayers, [...]
All are invited to join us as we celebrate the Solemnity of St. Clare of Assisi Transitus Celebration on Friday, August 10th @ 5 p.m. includes Vespers and Veneration of 1st Class Relic Holy Mass on the Solemnity of St. Clare on Saturday, August 11th @ 9 a.m. If this will be your first [...]
Our second Desert Morning of Prayer is quickly approaching. Check out the brochure below for more info. Also we ask for your continued prayers for vocations to the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration of Our Lady of Solitude Monastery. It is such a beautiful way of life! - and we are so happy to have [...]
Today is the beautiful Solemnity of Our Holy Mother Clare. The celebration here began last night with the Transitus – as we prayed Vespers, read aloud the account of her passage from this life to the next, prayed her Litany and venerated her 1st class relic (2 small pieces of her hair). This morning [...]
"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." - St. Clare of Assisi It is time to celebrate [...]
The 8th Annual Nun Run *Presented by Catholic Cemeteries and Funeral Homes of Phoenix* is just days away (have you registered yet?)...on March 4th, 2017 @ Kiwanis Park in Tempe AZ. This year, for the first time, we will also have a silent auction and raffle at the race venue. So even if you are [...]
With high praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God, we are happy to share with you that on December 12, 2016, Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Sr. John-Mark Maria became a perpetually professed Poor Clare of Perpetual Adoration. Our much beloved Bishop Olmsted celebrated the Mass of Profession along with Bishop Nevares and over a [...]
Chiara and Enrico learned in a marvelous way how to make space for grace; and grace cannot wait to show us the marvels of what it can do." Usually when I read a book, I plow through it, all the while writing down tons of quotes and putting sticky notes everywhere! But this was not [...]
When the bow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature—every mortal being that is on earth." - Genesis 9:16 Obviously these photos are not in chronological order! - Sr. Augusta is not a postulant again! Rather, I am not just getting around to [...]
