On September 4, 1915, His Eminence John Cardinal Farley, fulfilled a long- cherished desire and invited the Poor Clares of Omaha to open a house of prayer in his Archdiocese. As a young priest, he had seen the foundresses, Mother Mary Magdalene and Mother Mary Constance, turn in disappointment from New York City and he knew that if God should deign to use him as an instrument, he would beckon the Poor Clares back to the port of their arrival in America. Two nuns, Mother Mary Seraphim (Anne Lynch) a native of Ireland and Sister Mary Pius (Alice Reagan) from Texas were the foundresses. They each had a trunk and a couple of dollars. Within two years, two more sisters came from the Omaha monastery. For seven years the Sisters went out each day collecting alms with which to procure a home. New beginnings are often difficult.