Poor Clare Colettines of Immaculate Conception Monastery
Our cloistered contemplative vocation at the heart of the Church as daughters of Saints Francis and Clare, is a community life of adoration and intercession, offered for all the needs of our torn and fragmented world, "embracing in the most universal way the hardships, miseries, and hopes of all mankind."
Our vocation is centered on Christ, the Church, the Eucharist, and has a missionary heart. As an enclosed community, we are united in an intense form of religious family life, rooted in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the Divine Office, around which our monastic day and year revolve. We recognize our vocation as revealed in the Virgin Mary, who is both bride and mother, a figure of the Church, and we desire to echo her "Fiat" and her loving adoration of Christ, to become with her the living image of the Church's spousal love of Christ.
Contact:
Mother paul marie, P.C.C.
poor clare monastery
12210 S. Will Cook Road
Palos Park, IL 60464
708-361-1810
ChicagoPoorClares.org
Young women are encouraged to call or stop by the monastery to inquire about our life.
Professed Members: 7
Year Founded: 2000
Federation: We belong to the group of Poor Clare monasteries known as the Federation of Mary Immaculate in the United States, united in the observance of the Rule of St. Clare and the same Constitutions, and sharing the same ideals and vision of our form of life.
Archdiocese: Chicago, IL
Worldwide: 40 countries
Qualifications: Young women with normal good health, a high school education, possessing a personal emotional and psychological equilibrium capable of embracing both silence and solitude with God and an intense community life lived in sisterly charity. Young women are encouraged to call or stop by the monastery to inquire about our life.
Formation: INITIAL FORMATION: Since each Poor Clare monastery is autonomous, the formation of our new members takes place within our monastery. Young women desiring to follow in the footsteps of our Mother Saint Clare make contact with us and begin to learn about our community as aspirants. They are received into the monastery and later become postulants. This is a time of instruction and increasing immersion in the life they hope to fully embrace as St. Clare's daughters. Following this period of preparation and discernment, they may become novices, receiving the religious habit of our holy Order and given a new religious name as they begin preparation for the profession of vows while testing their ability to live this form of life. After first profession, there follows a period of temporary vows, at the conclusion of which they may be received for the profession of solemn perpetual vows, being "totally set apart for God in a personal covenant of love, surrendered with Christ through the Spirit to the Eternal Father."
Age range/limit: 18-38
Belated vocations? No