Love draws us to consecrate ourselves to God by public vows of consecrated celibacy, poverty and obedience as our way of deepening our baptismal commitment.*

Trusting that we can be what we are called to be, we profess to live the gospel counsels in community as consecrated women.  Our vow of consecrated celibacy calls us to unite ourselves to God; moved by God’s healing love for us, we respond and become instruments of healing love  for others..  We nurture a Trinitarian and creative love through faithfulness to the Eucharist, to prayer, to Scripture and to human relationships.

Our life of poverty urges us to seek God as our All.  We use, enjoy and reverence created things.  We thank God for these gifts to us and claim nothing as our own.  Our life of obedience challenges us to listen attentively to the word of God and to respond to it as individuals and as a community.  Our growth is furthered by listening to the Spirit of God as revealed to us through the Church and our congregation as well as through prayer and the persons and events in our lives.

To learn more about what it is like to be a Franciscan Sister of the Poor, please click on the icon below to download the pdf, Many Lives, One Journey