The Order of Poor Clare Colettines is an institute of the enclosed contemplative life ordained in a special way for the praise and worship of God. This is fulfilled principally through daily Mass, celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours seven times a day (this includes midnight rising), and Eucharistic adoration. It is a Gospel form of life striving to give witness to Christ praying on the mountain, to uphold by prayer and sacrifice the work of pastors in the Church, and to share in the most universal way the hardships, miseries, and hopes of all mankind.