Poor Clares of New Orleans (OSC)
St. Clare Monastery
Community News
It was bittersweet when we had to say Farewell to our old monastery, which had been built in 1912. The building was entirely too large for us and had major maintenance issues. In order to concentrate on our life of prayer and intercession, we had to move to our new, much smaller monastery. The following pictures show Sr. Charlene blessing the graves in our mortuary chapel on All Souls Day 2024, and the last Sunday Mass that we celebrated in the chapel of our old monastery, on the Third Sunday of Advent.
We could not have moved without many faithful volunteers. The images below show some of the Secular Franciscans and other friends who helped us to clean our new monastery in the weeks prior to our move.
For the past two years, Sr. Julie has been participating in the Flourishing Sisterhood project, sponsored by the Loyola Institute for Ministry. Her group of 13 sisters from around the Gulf Coast meet on Zoom weekly to study, pray, and share together on aspects of spirituality.
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Part of the project includes an oral history component. Sr. Julie was asked to record a podcast about her vocation and the life of the Poor Clares, especially as it is lived in our monastery in New Orleans. Click the picture on the right to listen to the podcast.
