Our Practices:

The wilderness is the ground of our soul.

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Relationships

Collaborating with our community partners, charitable giving programs, peacemaking & justice initiatives.

Creation

Living with a light footprint in the care and protection of Sister Mother Earth and her resources.

Presence

Changing lives through awareness, response, advocacy, prayer in action & contemplative gaze.

Imagination

Expressing the sacred through poetry, art, music, embodied prayer practices, & celebrations.

Our Partners:

As we journey from wilderness to wilderness, we are humbly encountering and caring for all creation across international and cultural boundaries.

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Our Practices in Action

Channeling the Spark of eternal cosmic blessing into the universe that unfolds before us, we are One Heart.

We are honored to support nonprofit organizations working to advance peace, justice, health, education, and the arts through grants ranging from $10,000 to $30,000. Recent grantees have addressed critical issues such as food and housing insecurity, human trafficking, immigration, poverty, violence, incarceration, limited access to healthcare, discrimination, alienation, and environmental injustice. In partnership with the CommonSpirit Health Foundation, our Charitable Grants Committee awards grants twice a year through a nomination and invitation process.

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Our Practices in Action

Go, Seeker, if you will, throughout the land and you will find us burning in the night for we have wilderness in us and we have often turned to journeys.

In Action

Reimagining Marian Residence

On January 29th, a groundbreaking ceremony marked the commencement of the development of the first residential hospice in Santa Maria, an affordable housing complex for low-income families and vulnerable seniors, and new housing for Sisters....
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An Invitation

A World Where All Belong: An Invitation “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” — Matthew 25:40 Poverty is not simply a lack of resources....
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Franciscan Living

A REFLECTION ON NEED Margie Will, osf HAVE THE "NEEDY" CHANGED?  In the United States, when we consider those who are in need as the materially poor, the marginalized, those who live in substandard shelter or have no...
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In Action

Reimagining Marian Residence

On January 29th, a groundbreaking ceremony marked the commencement of the development of the first residential hospice in Santa Maria, an affordable housing complex for low-income families and vulnerable seniors, and new housing for Sisters....
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Our Engegment

We are strong and resilient, holding the tension in the increasing complexity and chaos of our world.

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As followers of the way of Jesus, Francis, Clare, and Magdalen, we sisters and associates are firmly rooted in the values of simplicity, minority and truth.

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