Poor Clare Sister of Perpetual Adoration of Drumshanbo

Poor Clare Sister of Perpetual Adoration of Drumshanbo – Sister Patrice Noelle, P.C.P.A.

☩ Eucharistic Adoration was first started in Ireland in Drumshanbo in 1870 ☩

A prophetic witness of Communion, Joy, and the Gospel who lives the Beatitudes Her functional directive is to “Gaze Upon the Lord.” – St. Clare’s blueprint for community living

The Poor Clare, with one arm, clasps the world to her heart, and with the other, embraces Christ, knowing that He embraces both her and the world.

Foundresses: Mother St. Clare (Elizabeth Law) and Mother St. Francis (Mary Hays)

Place: Drumshanbo, County Leitrim, Ireland ☘

Year: January 6, 1864 A.D. (Feast of the Epiphany)

Her Charism: This Sister lives a contemplative cloistered life following a blend of the Franciscan and Poor Clare heritages where her primary focus is on adoring and offering reparative thanksgiving (penance) to Christ in the Eucharist. She places the Eucharist at the center of her daily life while offering continuous unbroken prayer and reparation on behalf of the world. This Sister lives a sequestered, silent, and contemplative life behind the cloister – an instrument to safeguard and to maintain an uninterrupted focus on the Eucharist. Only in silence can the Word of God find a home in her (or in us), as it did in Mary – a woman of the Word and inseparably, a woman of silence. Her vows are four: poverty, chastity, obedience, and enclosure, and she witnesses and “radiates” God’s love to her Sisters in the Community by her humility, simplicity, gentleness, and active joy. Like St. Clare, poverty is very dear to the heart of this Sister. It is put into practice by her simplistic lifestyle, sharing all in common, earning her living by the work of her hands, and trusting in Divine Providence. Adoration of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist is at the heart of her life. This spirit permeates her entire day. Kneeling at the source of Divine Love, she becomes an open vessel, allowing His love to flow into her and then out to the ends of the earth. This Sister gives to God, on behalf of humanity, what is His by right – that He be praised, loved, and adored by His creatures. She lovingly gathers humanity’s aspirations, sufferings and joys and offers them to God. This is how, she helps spread the Kingdom of God – by being a mirror and model for those living in the world. She is God’s co-worker and support for the frail members of the Body of Christ. It is this humble Sister’s heart’s desire that all people may come to realize God’s unfathomable love for them, and be able to repond to His Love. Essentially, her life is rooted in values for which the world is thirsting. St. Francis and St. Clare’s mission was to “rebuild the Church” which was crumbling in their time (13th Century). In her time, the Poor Clare continues this mission.

☘ The Poor Clare is one who weaves the flowers of each day into a crown for her King . . . one petal at a time. She is poor, chaste, and obedient. And she is the one who is alone on the mountain with Christ, enclosed in His heart, and lifting the entire world in prayer to her Heavenly Father ☘ Like stars in the daytime, we cannot see her because she is separated from the world in her little “cell” – the heart of her life which is a little piece of Paradise. Her vocation is union with God. ☘