Poor Clare Monastery (Cebu)

Have you ever visited the Poor Clare Monastery at one point in your life? It is tucked in a hilly lot but overlooking the sea...

This is their driveway. That Sunday of our visit a group of 3 people mindlessly practiced driving a motor scooter disturbing the otherwise serene and peaceful silence of the monastery. That some people could be so thoughtless is beyond me. But the thought that the security guard allowed it to happen... I mean hey! it is not a practice area - are we forgetting here that it's supposed to be a monastery?

To the left of the driveway (if one is coming from the outside) is the building where the nuns would entertain guests and other people seeking counsel perhaps... If we may not have a chance to speak with a nun, there is a box there for prayer petitions. We dropped ours in the hope that the nuns will include them in their prayers. Sometimes some problems need a battery of prayer warriors...

This is their chapel on the hill...

This is how it looks inside... On the right side is an enclosed space where the nuns do their prayers. There were nuns praying on that day and I wanted to have their picture taken. But I decided to refrain from doing so... I guess they deserve to have some private moments...

Part of their garden is a grotto of our Lady...