Poor Clare Colettines - Cleveland, Ohio

MEETING OUR COMMUNITY

"Come and help me in the work of the monastery of Saint Damian, for in that place later on will be ladies by whose renowned and holy way of living our heavenly Father will be glorified throughout all his holy Church." -Testament
	The distinctive marks which identify our community are: prayerful collaboration with and faithful support of the Catholic Church, our Holy Father and our local Church; simple and sisterly community sharing; careful observance of papal enclosure as an indispensable aid for a life of contemplative prayer; perpetual exposition and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament; traditional practices of fast and total abstinence; full-length habit and bare feet; and the Liturgy of the Hours with Matins at midnight.