St. Francis of Assisi (and) St. Clare of Assisi [Catholic Caucus]

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Today is the Memorial of St. Clare of Assisi.

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I didn’t notice that the picture of the Holy Card was crooked in the original article or I would have tried to straighten it out.

Sigh......

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Oops, I forgot to denote Catholic Caucus on this. Will send a message.

[Neoliberalnot]

The prayer of St. Francis is my favorite. I discovered it in my mother’s Bible a year or so after her passing in 1998. She had typed it out on a 3X5 card and used it as her bookmarker.

[DukeBillie]

We lived in Assisi for 2 1/2 months in 2008. It is a beautiful village. We visited San Damiano. Of all the churches and cathedrals we visited while in Italy (which was a lot!) this little church was the most spiritual.

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It’s a prayer I love too. So humble. My brother did it in caligraphy for me before he died.

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St. Francis of Assisi (and) St. Clare of Assisi [Catholic Caucus]
[CATHOLIC/ORTHODOX CAUCUS] For All the Saints: Clare of Assisi
SAINT CLARE, VIRGIN, FOUNDRESS OF THE POOR CLARES 1193-1253

Permission has been granted... [Poor Clares in San Antonio] (Catholic/Orthodox Caucus)
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St Clare of Assisi (1193-1253)
Saint Clare of Assisi

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**this little church was the most spiritual.**

Some how this does not surprise me at all.

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From today's Office of Readings:

Reading	A letter of St Clare to Blessed Agnes of Prague

Consider the poverty, humility and charity of Christ

Happy the soul to whom it is given to attain this life with Christ, to cleave with all one’s heart to him whose beauty all the heavenly hosts behold forever, whose love inflames our love, the contemplation of whom is our refreshment, whose graciousness is our delight, whose gentleness fills us to overflowing, whose remembrance makes us glow with happiness, whose fragrance revives the dead, the glorious vision of whom will be the happiness of all the citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem. For he is the brightness of eternal glory, the splendour of eternal light, the mirror without spot.

  Look into that mirror daily, O queen and spouse of Jesus Christ, and ever study therein your countenance, that within and without you may adorn yourself with all manner of virtues, and clothe yourself with the flowers and garments that become the daughter and chaste spouse of the most high King. In that mirror are reflected poverty, holy humility and ineffable charity, as, with the grace of God, you may perceive.

  Gaze first upon the poverty of Jesus, placed in a manger, wrapped in swaddling clothes. What marvellous humility! What astounding poverty! The King of angels, Lord of heaven and earth, is laid in a manger. Consider next the humility, the blessed poverty, the untold labours and burdens which he endured for the redemption of the human race. Then look upon the unutterable charity with which he willed to suffer on the tree of the cross and to die thereon the most shameful kind of death. This mirror, Christ himself, fixed upon the wood of the cross, bade the passers-by consider these things: ‘All you who pass this way look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow.’ With one voice and one mind let us answer him as he cries and laments, saying in his own words: ‘I will be mindful and remember and my soul shall languish within me.’ Thus, O queen of the heavenly King, may you ever burn more ardently with the fire of this love.

  Contemplate further the indescribable joys, the wealth and unending honours of the King, and sighing after them with great longing, cry to him: ‘Draw me after you: we shall run to the fragrance of your perfumes, O heavenly bridegroom.’ I will run and faint not until you bring me into the wine cellar, until your left hand be under my head and your right hand happily embrace me and you kiss me with the kiss of your mouth.

  In such contemplation be mindful of your poor little mother and know that I have inscribed your happy memory indelibly on the tablets of my heart, holding you dearer than all others.

[sockmonkey]

Two years ago today, some of Mother Angelica’s nuns arrived in San Antonio to found a new Monastery. They are a blessing and inspiration.

http://www.texasnuns.com

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oops in my tagline..corrected now

[nanetteclaret]

My small illustrated lives of the saints book says that St. Clare is the Patronness of Television! There certainly are no coincidences with God.

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Noted here too from EWTN!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2568439/posts?page=4#4

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Congratulations to you and your daughter! I think I’m reading your tagline correctly!

[Melian]

A wonderful movie about the two of them is “Brother Sun, Sister Moon.” It is very beautifully filmed and you will fall in love with that area in Italy. The actress who plays Clare is beautiful and does a wonderful job of portraying her moment of decision. It is moving.

Today is also the unofficial feast of St. Philomena, Powerful with God.

[Bigg Red]

The prayer of St. Francis is my favorite. I discovered it in my mother’s Bible a year or so after her passing in 1998. She had typed it out on a 3X5 card and used it as her bookmarker.

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How wonderful to have that reminder of your mother’s faith.

[Bigg Red]

How wonderful. Blessings on your daughter’s vocation. You must be very pleased.

[Bigg Red]

St. Francis was my childhood favorite because he loved the animals. His is the only statue I have in my garden.

[Neoliberalnot]

Thank you for your kind words Redd. We are not Catholic but we clearly recognize a Christian heart.