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Capuchin Monastery of Alamo, Tx

St. Joseph & St. Rita Monastery - Alamo, Texas 

    Our monastery bears the name of Saint Joseph and Saint Rita because the Church is dedicated to Saint Joseph and a great part of the monastery has been built with donations from some benefactors who have a great devotion to Saint Rita. For many years, Bishop Raymond Peña of the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas had been asking the northern federation of Our Father Saint Francis and the Immaculate Conception for a new monastery in his diocese.



    The community of Zamora, Michoacán (Mexico) accepted the project. On May 26, 2003, we arrived in Brownsville. We were there for six weeks; then we moved to Raymondsville, Texas. There we stayed more than two years, living in the rectory of Saint Anthony Parish. Meanwhile the new monastery was being built in Alamo, Texas.



    The bishop wanted it to be in Alamo because Alamo is the city in the center of Brownsville diocese. While the building of the monastery is being completed, the diocese has supplied us with food and support, but it has not been enough. So we have helped ourselves by making various things: cookies, scapulars, rosaries, bracelets, corporals and purificators. This provisional work will not be our main means of support as we plan to have another source of income in the future. 




 
   The Bishop's desire is to have in his diocese a contemplative monastery that has perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Given that we are just a few sisters, a plan will be set up so that the laity can participate and in that way it will be possible to have adoration all day and all night. 

(Text from: www.capuchinpoorclares.org)


Our mission in our local church is: 
  • Adore the Most Blessed Sacrament 
  • To pray for the intentions and needs of the Diocesan Bishop, the priests, seminarians, and pray for vocations to the priesthood. Since it is through the priests’ ministry that it’s made possible for us to adore the Eucharist in this world, like St Francis says, they administer to us spirit and life. And, in imitation of St Francis and St Clare, we adore, full of faith and devotion, Christ present in the Most Blessed Sacrament and center of our life. (Const No 68) 
  • The celebration of the Eucharist, the praying of the Liturgy of the Hours and the Holy Rosary, open to the public, so that they may participate with us. 
  • The celebration of the Holy Hours for vocations every Thursday with the participation of the different parishes of our Diocese. Pray for the needs of our local church. 

    Every day we place in the hands of our Eucharistic Jesus all the needs of our world, and the intentions entrusted to our prayer.

(Text from: http://capuchinnunsalamotx.org/)





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