Our Life of Prayer
“It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to make music to your name, O Most High, to proclaim your loving mercy in the morning, and your truth in the watches of the night.” Psalm 92:2–3
From entering the choir…
… and prostrating before the Blessed Sacrament rising and kneeling and chanting to worship God; raising her song to God and then begging him in a solemn prayer to “Open her mouth to bless his holy name,” right down to the last “Amen,” the nun is doing the only really important thing any human being has to do. For this, all of us were born and for nothing else.
Our Day of Prayer
For many persons the day ends when they retire at midnight. As Poor Clares, our day begins when we rise at midnight. The first of the canonical hours of the Divine Office is chanted at midnight while the world around is sleeping or perhaps sinning. Sin loves the cover of night. Prayer goes out into the backstreets of the night to seek out sinners and reclaim them. The night Office is a torch held in the hands of the Poor Clare as her love goes looking down the lanes of the world for the lost, the straying, the despairing, the suffering, the dying. From this first hour of the morning, this stream of love and prayer flows out and consecrates all the hours of the day, beginning on earth the work of eternity.
Come and Pray With Us
Holy Mass:
7 a.m. daily
(8:00 a.m. on Christmas, New Year’s Day and Easter Sunday)
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament:
8:30 to 5:00 p.m. Sundays and First Fridays
1:30 to 5:00 p.m. Thursdays
Benediction:
5:00 p.m. (preceded by Rosary and Vespers)
Sunday, Thursday, and First Friday
Best times to call or visit:
9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.; 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.; 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Bring us your prayer intentions and visit our chapel and gift shop.