Poor Clare Colettines, Cleveland, Oh

[Laudem Gloriae]

Sorry, I meant to add that Sr. St. John let me go thru their private quarters from the parlor and speaking to the Mother Abbess and Novice Mistress and then go thru their quarters to the chapel instead of having to go outside and walk all around their monastery to get to the other side where the public entrance is. As it was super cold out, they wouldn't hear of me going to the chapel from the outside. They also let me have breakfast and a lunch once in one of their private rooms, it was like a sitting room or something - a beautiful room with a statue of St. Clare, etc.

Ok enough, I will be on this post posting all my incredible memories and moments and bore everyone to tears! lol!

For anyone new to these PCCs, their website is: [url="http://www.poorclarecolettines-cleveland.org/"]http://www.poorclarecolettines-cleveland.org/[/url] - though I think I listed it in my first opening post of this thread.

[Chiquitunga]

It's neat seeing this chart of the US [url="http://www.poorclarecolettines-cleveland.org/roots_3.htm"]PCC foundations[/url] from Cleveland. The history of the different the monasteries and where they all came from and how they are connected really interests me. I like knowing where all the different Carmels came from too from these [url="http://picasaweb.google.com/ocdnuns/UnitedStatesFoundations17901990"]foundation charts[/url] in the Carmel in the US book.

[center][img]http://www.poorclarecolettines-cleveland.org/images/geneology.jpg[/img][/center]
Also, Mary (LaudemGloriae) has a book up on eBay on the Cleveland PCCs, [url="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170227113515&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm37%26satitle%3D170227113515%2509%26fvi%3D1"][i]Into This Land[/i][/url] It looks beautiful!

[VeniteAdoremus]

Wow, they're the great-grandmotherhouse of Eindhoven! That monastery really is super-important in my country. And getting vocations, yay

[Chiquitunga]

[quote name='VeniteAdoremus' post='1568705' date='Jun 11 2008, 05:28 PM']Wow, they're the great-grandmotherhouse of Eindhoven! That monastery really is super-important in my country. And getting vocations, yay [/quote]
Oh neat! That's the one that has the twin sisters I remember back from this thread, where you did the translating [url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=75222"]Poor Clares in the Netherlands[/url]

[VeniteAdoremus]

Yes Another girl entered after them, I believe. Three sisters under thirty is rare, or outright unique, in the Netherlands.

And... the twins have another sister, who will profess first vows with the SSVM on October 15 Their parents ought to give courses!

[Laudem Gloriae]

Some Poor Clare Colettine article links:

A PCC vocation story of a young college basketball player becomes a PCC: [url="http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/catholic_stories/cs0038.html"]http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/...ies/cs0038.html[/url]


This is a wonderful article/letter by a father of a girl who became a Poor Clare Colettine in the then Newport News Poor Clare Colettines that has since moved to Barhamsville, [url="http://www.wf-f.org/03-2-PoorClares.html"]http://www.wf-f.org/03-2-PoorClares.html[/url]. The Barhamsville Poor Clare site is at [url="http://www.poor-clares.org/"]http://www.poor-clares.org/[/url] and they have a wonderful blog at [url="http://pcmonastery.blogspot.com/"]http://pcmonastery.blogspot.com/[/url].


Here's "A Day Within the Walls of Poor Clare Monastery" on the Rockford, IL PCCs at [url="http://www.cloisteredlife.com/poorclares.htm"]http://www.cloisteredlife.com/poorclares.htm[/url]


Here's a link to the Rule of St. Clare - the only rule written by a woman: [url="http://www.stanthonyshrine.org/PoorClares/Rule_St_Clare.pdf"]http://www.stanthonyshrine.org/PoorClares/Rule_St_Clare.pdf[/url]


One of 3 PCC orders in Ireland: PCCs of Dublin at [url="http://www.pccdamians.ie/index.htm"]http://www.pccdamians.ie/index.htm[/url] - open to older women.

[Laudem Gloriae]

This is a part of an article on the Poor Clare Colettine Nuns of Cleveland, OH, - [url="http://www.dispatch.com/live/contentbe/dispatch/2007/01/05/20070105-C3-00.html"]http://www.dispatch.com/live/contentbe/dis...0105-C3-00.html[/url] - that the Mother Abbess sent me that she clipped from the newspaper on Sr. Christina. Like I said, it is only a part of the article but it does have the 2 pictures that were published with it.

Mother Abbess let Sr. Christina have the roller blades in the monastery as a form of exercise and entertainment for the other sisters! Sr. Christina had said she knows how to fall so she hasn't gotten hurt yet but it IS more difficult to roller blade in a full habit!

[Saint Therese]

I these articles and links are awesome! Thank you for sharing them!

[Lisieux Flower]

amazing pictures and articles! i LOVE number eleven in the pictures...