BREAKING NEWS – Buffalo, New York – Cloistered nuns from Buffalo, New York, announced they have officially left the state for Florida in an effort to find “silence and solitude.”
“Prayerful greetings from sunny Florida! We are happy to report that, sustained by the fervent prayers of so many, we departed from Buffalo the morning of January 14 despite the blizzard, and safely arrived in Jacksonville the following day,” the Discalced Carmelite nuns wrote in a message on their website this month.
The Discalced Carmelite Monastery of the Little Flower of Jesus was established in Buffalo more than a century ago, when “this was a quiet area on the outskirts of the city,” the nuns wrote in a letter on their website in October. “We decided to leave Buffalo for two reasons. The first one is the growing amount of gangs in the area. And the second one is, we’re tired of people blaming us for not praying hard enough for the Buffalo Bills to win a Super Bowl.”