Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration - St. Jospeh Adoration Monastery- Portsmouth Ohio Cloistered, Contemplative, Franciscan Nuns

We loved the prayerful and peaceful setting of Mount St. Mary

Mother Dolores Marie and Sr. Imelda Marie with Seminarian Jason Barone, of the Diocese of Charlotte

Visting with our Friars and many of our Seminarian friends

Mother Dolores Marie and Sr. Imelda Marie with our good friend, Adam Boyden, a Seminarian of our Diocese

Sr. Imelda up to mischief at the Mount

We enjoyed a meal out with Brs. Leonard, Patrick, and John Paul of the MFVAs and Seminarians Ty Tomson and Adam Boyden

Mother Dolores Marie and Mother Mary James, Abbess of our Cleveland Monastery

Sr. Imelda Marie and Sr. Marie St. John of our Hanceville Monastery

Group picture of all the Abbesses and Sisters who participated in our Association Meeting and Fr. Yacobi, OFM Cap, who is our Religious Assistant

Mother Dolores and Sr. Imelda with  Srs. Ruth Marie and Sr. Marie St. John, along with our two Seminarian friends who followed us to D.C.

We visited the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

Mother Dolores and Sr. Imelda with Seminarian Ty Tomson, who we have known since he began Seminary. He will, God willing, be ordained a Deacon for our Diocese this spring!

Mother Dolores Marie and Sr. Imelda Marie with the Apostolic Nuncio for the USA, Archbishop Pietro Sambi

Sr. Imelda and Fr. Gregory Gordon, who works at the Nunciature