Community Profile

Poor Clares of the Immaculate Heart Monastery Mother Maura P.C.C. Vocation Contact 28210 Natoma Rd Los Altos Hills, CA 94022-3220 650-948-2947 www.poorclare.org

Community Information

International? Poor Clares are world-wide No. in community (professed members) 16 Year founded 1950 Generalate/ motherhouse Autonomous Province/federation Santa Barbara/Mary Immaculate Federation Represented in US (Arch)dioceses San Jose, CA

About Us

Mission statement/description This order of Poor Clares is an institute of the contemplative life directed in a special way for the praise and worship of God. It strives to give witness to Christ praying on the mountain and to share in the most universal way the hardships, miseries and hopes of all mankind. The sisters live a life of prayer, in the spirit of the Franciscan St. Clare. Qualifications for entry Good physical and mental health; sufficient personal maturity, particularly psychological and emotional. Formation program All formation of the nuns is done at the monastery. Formation progresses from postulancy to novitiate, to temporary profession, and then to permanent profession. The entire formation program lasts from five and one-half to six years. Age range/limit 18-35 Consider belated vocations? No Belated/late vocations explanation