Dear Friends, Families, and Benefactors,
Ave Maria! We pray you are all in the midst of a very holy and grace-filled season of
Advent. Work continues on our little convent chapel. We hope to have it ready within the
next two weeks so that we may welcome the Infant Jesus, our God and Spouse, into our
hearts, our souls, and our tabernacle at Christmas. What a joyful Christmas it will be to
dwell with the King of Heaven!
We now have a “Sister Carpenter”, who frequently calls upon St. Joseph to help her with
work she never imagined herself doing in the convent: stripping and refinishing old wood,
constructing chairs and kneelers, and learning the names of various tools and how they
work. The early Franciscans, embracing Lady Poverty with great jealousy, worked in this
same fashion, and we are learning just how spoiled we are in the modern world. While we
are unable, due to small numbers in our beginning stages, to do everything by the labor of
our own hands, we are attempting to do what we can.
We are now also experiencing our first true Winter in Colorado. Coming from Texas, this
has been very…well…cold! We laugh at our frailty and remind ourselves that the elements
provide plenty of opportunity to save souls if we remain in the presence of God and keep
always in front of us the reason we consecrated our lives to God. We give others plenty of
opportunity to save souls too when they are forced to drive in the snow behind the nuns
with the Texas license plate!
Our appeal for your help continues, as we are now beginning to receive correspondence
from young ladies around the country, and we have no room to receive them. We are
praying a perpetual novena to St. Joseph to provide a permanent home where our
foundation may grow and where we may truly live according to the spirit of St. Francis
and our Capuchin customs. We live in a world that no longer understands religious life and
the necessity of consecrated souls to pray and sacrifice for the conversion and salvation of
sinners, for our country, for our world, and for the triumph of the Holy Catholic Church
against her enemies within and without. We rely solely upon Divine Providence and the
generosity of the faithful in order to live. We thank all of you for your generous support,
and we assure you that we carry each and every one of you, with all of your intentions, in
all of our prayers and sacrifices. In every Mass and at every holy Communion and, since
we have a special claim on the Heart of Our Lord, we trust in Him with great confidence to
repay you all the promised hundred-fold in this life and in eternity.
May God bless you, and may Our Lady keep you close to her Immaculate Heart!
The Capuchin Sisters of St. Joseph
Before the snowfall, the Sisters work to clear an area for Our Lady’s spring grotto. 
Our first attempt at refurbishing an old table 
We quickly discovered it was an outdoor job…. 
When power tools failed, we discovered it was a two person job! 
One of our Capuchin customs is to kneel for collations during Advent. 
The Sisters are learning many trades, including electrical work.
Capuchin Sisters of St Joseph 
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