{"id":24848,"date":"2009-08-11T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/saint-clare-of-assisi\/"},"modified":"2016-08-11T08:13:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T12:13:13","slug":"saint-clare-of-assisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/saint-clare-of-assisi\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Clare of Assisi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Clare%20detail%20Giotto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St Clare detail Giotto-thumb-250x320.jpg\" alt=\"St Clare detail Giotto.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking good pearls, who, when he had found one of great price, gave all that he had and bought it.<\/p>\n<p>Hear us, O God our Savior, that as we rejoice in the feast of blessed Clare, Thy Virgin, so may we also be strengthened in the love of true piety.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Saint Clare once said, &#8220;They say we are too poor. Can a heart which possesses God be really called poor!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/12251b.htm\">Poor Clares<\/a><\/strong> nuns never ate meat. They walked without socks and shoes. The sisters wore a hair shirt and ate only bread and water during Lent.<\/p>\n<p>Explore the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/poorclare.org\/blog\/\">Poor Clare vocation<\/a><\/strong>; there&#8217;s also this <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poor-clares.org\/\">new monastery of Poor Clares<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking good pearls, who, when he had found one of great price, gave all that he had and bought it. Hear us, O God our Savior, that as we rejoice in the feast of blessed Clare, Thy Virgin, so may we also be strengthened in the love &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/saint-clare-of-assisi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Clare of Assisi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1770,2795],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33794,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24848\/revisions\/33794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}