New Video Shows Hidden Mystery of Cloistered Poor Clare Sisters

Sept. 9, 2009 - PRLog -- In a world that tends to find the enclosed contemplative life of women religious not only a mystery but even an outdated custom of past centuries, scenes of the daily life in a cloistered monastery can be difficult to understand.
Quiet chapels, religious images and sisters toiling at everyday tasks are featured in a new video just produced by the Poor Clare Nuns of Santa Barbara, CA. Theirs is a simple, joy-filled life balanced between community living and solitude, prayer and work. Their Rule of life is to observe the Holy Gospel, living in obedience, poverty and chastity within papal enclosure.
The video hints at the mystery of their life with the words, “As spouse of the Word, the Poor Clare dedicates herself to Christ ‘in the mystery of a total and exclusive love.’”
The video can be seen at http://www.YouTube.com/PoorClaresSantaBarb, or on the sisters’ website at http://www.poorclaressantabarbara.org/video. The video was produced by TreeFrogClick, Inc., which provides web services to religious communities.

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The Poor Clare Nuns of Santa Barbara are a Catholic cloistered religious community. The mystery of their life can be summed up in the words, “As spouse of the Word, the Poor Clare dedicates herself to Christ ‘in the mystery of a total and exclusive love.’”