The Order of Franciscan Clareans (OFC) is a new monastic movement of everyday mystics, misfits, and ministers committed to love, justice, healing, and simplicity. We follow Jesus through the eyes of Francis and Clare, drawing from queer theology, liberation theology, spiritual ecology, and universal love. We honor our bodies, the Earth, and one another as sacred. We stand with the oppressed and resist the empires of today—racism, transphobia, greed, violence, and ecological destruction.
To be Franciscan Clarean is to live prophetically and tenderly at the same time. It is to find joy in the compost pile, holiness in community gardens, and prayer in protest. It is to be unapologetically queer, unwaveringly gentle, fiercely hopeful.
Brother Emilie Joseph, OFC 