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PhotoStory Feast of Saint Clare 2018 redone

Feast of Saint Clare August 11, 2018

Pope Francis to meet with 70,000 young people this weekend to prepare Synod

Sister Kathi Nick OSC receives the Habit

Celebrating Father Raymond Lennon SVD August 5, 2018

Father Raymond Lennon SVD held a Mass and Picnic as he moves on to their Motherhouse in Teckny, IL. The Poor Clares attended since we have known Fr. Ray for over 44 years.
Fr Ray has always been kind to us in so many ways and has never forgotten us. We will never forget Father Ray and he will always have our prayers and our love.

Pope Francis changes Church’s position on death penalty: It’s inadmissible

August 1, 2018 The Pearl of great Price

Today’s Gospel Reading: Matthew 13:44-46 – SEVENTEENTH WEEK OF THE YEAR: Wednesday, 1 August 2018

The Gospel reading tells us that our meeting the Lord Jesus is like finding a treasure or discovering a pearl. The emphasis is on the discovery.

In the last analysis, every person must find the Lord on her or his own. There is no special grove or shrine to which we have to journey. The longest journey is inward because God is within us as powerfully as He is in the rest of the universe.

One vehicle for this inner entry is meditation. If we take the time to meditate, we will be undertaking the most ancient and demanding kind of pilgrimage where we are certain to find the Lord. Within ourselves, we discover His strength to live out the Gospel message.
The longest, loneliest and most rewarding journey is the pilgrimage inward.
Jakarta, 1 August 2018
A Christian Pilgrim

Pope Francis to altar servers: Path to holiness is not for lazy

July 31, 2018 You are the Light of the World

The sun must shine regardless of the world, and a child of God must love regardless of circumstances and bless regardless of the world.  You must never let your circumstance define who you are or the darkness around you determine your shining.  Love the good, the bad, and the unworthy.  Love those who hate you., not because of who they are, but because of who you are.  Shine regardless and shine no matter what., For you are the light of the world.  And the necessity of the light…is to shine.
Jonathan Cahn from the Book of Mysteries

July visitors Saturday and Sunday,





Saturday, July 28,



Father Flor, a Divine Word Missionary, brought two seminarians who are studying at Epworth, Iowa, Dario of Argentina and Pedro of Angola
Pictured left to right: Sister Frances, Father Flor, Dario, Clarita, Pedro and Sister Barbara.



Sunday, July 29, 2018 

Father John Gallagher CSSR, Redemptorist Hermit in Campo Grande, Brazil celebrated Mass with us and visited us at breakfast John does counseling with poor addicts seeking treatment. We have known John since he was in high school.
It is always such a pleasure to see and him what he is doing with is work in Brazil. Prayers for you John.