Our Ministries

As Franciscan Sisters we see ourselves as part of the greater human family. One way we enflesh this belief is by choosing to utilize the beautiful grounds, buildings, and facilities of our Motherhouse campus to provide services, activities, and programs designed to enhance the total well-being of individuals, families and groups. These include Saint Francis of Assisi Parish, the Franciscan Retreat and Conference Center, Mount Saint Francis Nursing Center, and Franciscan Community Counseling. Another important way of enhancing the total well-being of individuals and families, especially women and children, is our Women Partnering ministry located in the center of Colorado Springs. Still other Sisters minister in parishes, hospitals, and other social arenas, all enhancing the total well-being of the greater human family.

St. Francis of Assisi Parish

Our Motherhouse campus provides a home for a vibrant and growing faith community of over 700 families.

Mt. St. Francis Nursing Center

Mt. St. Francis Nursing Center is a skilled nursing center dedicated to people requiring long-term care. It is committed to providing quality care in a Christian environment that reflects a concern for the dignity of each person. This care includes preventive, skilled, chronic and rehabilitative as a means of meeting the physical, social, spiritual and emotional needs of the residents.

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Our Mission

We, the sisters of Saint Francis of Perpetual Adoration, Saint Joseph Province, are a community of Catholic women religious. We are called to continue the mission of Jesus as we follow in the footprints of Francis, Clare, and our foundress, Maria Theresia Bonzel.

Empowered by our charism of Eucharistic and lived adoration and the love we share in community, we witness the Gospel values of conversion, contemplation, poverty, and humility by:
--Standing in solidarity with those who are in any way poor or powerless,
--Addressing unmet needs of our times with
justice, mercy and compassion,
--Reverencing all of creation.

Franciscan Retreat Center

The Sisters maintain a retreat and conference center which provides overnight accommodations and meeting facilities to groups or individuals seeking an environment permeated by the beauty of God's creation.

Franciscan Community Counseling

The Sisters sponsor a non-profit community service agency that promotes holistic living through psychological counseling, testing, and personal and family enrichment programs

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Women Partnering

Women Partnering is a network of women from diverse backgrounds who respond to the unmet needs of financially vulnerable women and children in the Colorado Springs area. This network works with others to provide services to those financially vulnerable women and children, raise awareness of their plight and where appropriate and subject to applicable IRS limits , advocate policy change on their behalf.

Although our Motherhouse in Colorado Springs is "home" for all the Sisters of our Province, many Sisters are engaged in active ministry at other locations. Currently, the Sisters of our Saint Joseph Province are ministering in other areas of Colorado as well as in Nebraska, New Mexico, Kansas, California and Kentucky.