For the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, the Eucharist is the source and summit of our daily life. We have the privilege of adoring Our Lord, truly present in the Most Blessed Sacrament and solemnly exposed in our chapel. In the name of the Church, we come before Him, day and night, in loving adoration and in a spirit of reparation and thanksgiving, the particular charism handed down to us from our foundress, Mère Marie de Sainte Claire Bouillevaux.

      As cloistered contemplative nuns, our life of enclosure and silence draws us into an ever deeper union with our Divine Spouse. By our work and prayer, which remains hidden from the eyes of the world, we give witness to the eternal things above, and stand as intercessors before the Throne of God for the Church and the world.
    

    Following in the footsteps of St. Francis and St. Clare, we joyfully embrace a holy life of poverty with all its simplicity and sacrifice. With an undivided heart, we love God and our brothers and sisters with a chaste love, a love which seeks nothing in return. Through obedience we seek to put all our gifts, all our energy, all of our time at the disposal of the Lord through His Word, His Church, and our superiors.
 

    It is our great joy to dwell in the House of the Lord, to live within the walls of this sacred place where the first Eucharistic Throne of our Order was established and where Jesus was praised, loved and adored in the heart of France for generations. We pray in hope and expectation that many young French women will join us so that our life will flourish here once again.

 

"The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration constitute a part of the Second Order of St. Francis, dedicated especially to adoration of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Blessed Sacrament, solemnly exposed. The Constitutions are based on the Rule of St. Clare approved by Innocent IV. "                     (Constitutions, Article 5)

"The Order is a religious institute of the cloistered contemplative life, observing Papal Enclosure...subject to the Holy See and under the jurisdiction of the local Ordinary [Bishop] according to the norms of Church law."                                 (Constitutions, Article 6)