Capuchin Poor Clares

      Al celebrar la Fiesta de nuestra madre Santa Clara de Asís, no solo viene a mi mente un profundo agradecimiento por el don maravilloso del carisma vivido y compartido, sino que llega a mi interior el deseo de seguir haciendo partícipe al mundo de hoy la frescura y la necesidad de continuar viviendo el Evangelio con las intuiciones y modalidades que Clara y Francisco de Asís recibieron de Dios e imprimieron en la familia franciscano-clariana. ¿Cómo contemplar a través de Clara el rostro de Jesucristo y traducir en un lenguaje actualizado los valores fundamentales de este particular modo de vivir el Evangelio? Contemplar, alegrarnos y agradecer con la vida al Dios que nos ofrece tantas maravillas en la cotidianidad de nuestras vidas. Ese, a mi modo de ver, fue el motor que impulsó a Clara a dejar su vida acomodada para servir a Dios que se manifiesta en los más pobres y abandonados”      El hermano Heribert Roggen, OFM se refiere a la vivencia espiritua...

In 1985, Brother Ronald Giannone, OFM Cap., Fr. Thomas Hanley, personal representative of the Bishop of Wilmington, Delaware, and two Poor Clare nuns from the monastery in Langhorne, Pennsylvania visited the capuchin monastery in Uruapan, Michoacan, (Mexico). They met with Abbess, Mother Teresa Cacho, and with the President of the Federation of St. Francis and St. Clare, Mother María Inés Cacho. Bro. Ronald and his companions traveled to Mexico with the intention of asking the Sisters in Uruapan to consider the founding of a monastery in Wilmington, Delaware, where the capuchin friars have The Ministry of Caring, a service program for the poor.            As a follow up to the visit, Bro. Ronald wrote to Mother Teresa Cacho with the formal request for a new foundation from the monastery in Uruapan. Mother Teresa Cacho turned down his request. She felt that her sisters, though large in number, were too young to assume such an important new mission. ...

     Our presence in the diocese of Pueblo is the fruit of persevering prayer on the part of a bishop who knew how to wait for God’s time. After fourteen years of patient waiting, he finally managed to get a contemplative community to his diocese. On June 14, 1987, his Excellency Bishop Arthur N. Tofoya of the diocese of Pueblo, Colorado visited our community in Amarillo, Texas for the first time. He was seeking the presence of a community of Capuchin Poor Clares for his diocese.       The sisters’ mission would be to support with prayer the pastoral ministry of the bishop and of the priests and religious. The Capuchin Poor Clares had come to the diocese of Amarillo in 1981. There were not enough sisters to begin a new monastery. So his petition was referred to the Federation of Capuchin Poor Clares in Mexico. During the next three years, the president of the Mexica n federation, Mother Inés Cacho visited the diocese of Pueblo twice. She held out t...

     Establishing a community of Capuchin Poor Clare Sisters in the Mid-America Province was a dream that began at the Provincial Chapter of the Capuchin Franciscan Friars in 1986. At that time, then Provincial Minister Charles Chaput and his council were asked by the friars to actively pursue the establishment of a community of the Second Order.        Upon hearing that the Capuchins were trying to establish a community of Capuchin Poor Clares in Mid-America, Archbishop J. Francis Stafford of Denver (now Cardinal in Rome), contacted Fr. Charles Chaput (now Archbishop of Denver, expressing interest in having the sisters establish their community within the Archdiocese of Denver. In 1987, our community in Irapuato, Guanajuto, Mexico, agreed to establish a monastery in Denver. The canonical procedures were initiated to arrange for the new foundation. The President of the Federation and the Abbessof the monastery in Irapuato, came to Denver to meet w...