Franciscan saints & blesseds: February 2011 Archives

Saint Colette

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Saint Colette.jpgSaint Colette is the famous 15th century reformer of the Poor Clare nuns. You see her reform noted as the Colettine Poor Clares. She follows to a "T" the rigorous life set down by Saint Clare herself in hearing the words "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me." She did; so did others.

King Henry VIII would compare Saint Colette to "a diligent bee that gathers exquisite honey from the precious flowers of the most rare virtues."

The Prayer Over the Gifts for Saint Colette's Mass reads:

Lord, may the gifts we bring You help us to follow the example of Saint Colette. Cleanse us from our earthly way of life, and teach us to live the new life of Your kingdom.

Here the Church wants us to receive the gift of singular focus on the new we've received already through Baptism, Confirmation and the Holy Eucharist. The new life preached by Christ and the Church today.

According to the Roman-Franciscan Sacramentary of 1974, February 7 is the liturgical memorial of Saint Colette, not March 6 as noted in other places. A previous blog post on Saint Colette can be read here.

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Paul A. Zalonski is from New Haven, CT. He is a member of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, a Catholic ecclesial movement and an Oblate of Saint Benedict. Contact Paul at paulzalonski[at]yahoo.com.

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