{"id":25313,"date":"2010-02-07T07:06:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T11:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/saint-colette\/"},"modified":"2010-02-07T07:06:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T11:06:28","slug":"saint-colette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/saint-colette\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Colette"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Let us rejoice
\nand shout for joy, because the Lord of all things has favored this holy and
\nglorious virgin with his love.<\/span><\/p>\n

God, our Father, You set Saint Colette as an
\nexample and leader of evangelical perfection for many virgins. Grant that the
\nspirit of Saint Francis which she wisely taught and wondrously confirmed by her
\nholy example may ever abide in us.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


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Following the death of her parents, Colette,
\nwith permission of the ecclesial authorities remained hidden from the world in
\na room next a church where a window allowed her to adore the Blessed Sacrament.
\nEssentially she adopted an ancient form of religious life as an anchoress.
\nColette embraced the rule of the Third Order of St. Francis, desiring to live
\nin perfect poverty, severe mortification, and constant prayer in order to become
\nlike the Seraphic Father. The life she was graced to live had bountiful
\nconsolations but she faced severe temptations and even corporal abuse from
\nSatan. Who, by the way, is clearly instrumental in trying to bring the Church to her knees.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because her life as a Third Order Franciscan<\/a> an interest developed to
\nknow more about the life of Saint Clare and the early Poor Clare rule where the
\nideal was to live in strict observance of the rule of Saint Clare. By this time,
\nhistory indicates that even the Poor Clares were a bit economical in living the
\nlife Clare envisioned. Discerning that her call in life was not to take an
\nactive role in re-forming the Poor Clare observance, Colette dismissed the
\ndesires she had entertained. The problem was that these desires resurfaced
\ntime-and-again to the extent that she discovered that God, not the devil, placed
\nthe desire of reform in her heart. Rather boldly God got Colette’s attention by
\nstriking her dumb and blind, until she finally resigned herself to the will of
\nGod, like some notable biblical figures. Acknowledging the will of God, her
\nspeech and her sight were restored.<\/span><\/p>\n

You know the scenario: God never asks you
\nto do something without giving the grace to accomplish the task. A spiritual
\nfather given to Colette to guide her spiritual life so that she could what the
\nLord required. As preparation, Colette spent four years on before receiving the
\nblessing of the pope to establish one convent of Poor Clares. In time the
\ncharism Colette proposed was corresponding to women’s desires that in her
\nlifetime Colette seventeen monasteries were founded under her inspiration. In the USA, the Colettine Poor Clares have a number of monasteries. One foundation that I would like to highlight is the Bethlehem Monastery of the Poor Clares<\/a>, Barhamsville, VA.<\/span><\/p>\n

Grace
\nupon grace was given to Colette for saving souls for Christ that in a vision
\nshe saw souls falling into hell more swiftly than the snowflakes in a winter’s
\nstorm. At once she knew her mission.<\/span><\/p>\n

Saint Colettes’s devotion to the Passion
\nof Our Lord was evident which enabled her to make sacrifices to do what the
\nLord wanted. With her friend, the Dominican, Saint Vincent Ferrer,  she is
\nconsidered most responsible for the end of the Great Western Schism when the
\nPopes resided at Avignon, France between 1378 and 1417. Some Dominicans will likely dispute this claim, but as history is written on this period in Church history, Colette and Vincent seem to more key in papal correction than Saint Catherine of Siena is, but the latter’s influence is no doubt significant. The unity of the Church
\nwas a stake when Colette and Vincent wrote to the Fathers in council at
\nConstance guiding them on how to deal with John XXIII, Benedict XIII, and
\nGregory XII. They proposed the deposing of Benedict XIII in order for a new
\nelection.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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Let us rejoice and shout for joy, because the Lord of all things has favored this holy and glorious virgin with his love. God, our Father, You set Saint Colette as an example and leader of evangelical perfection for many virgins. Grant that the spirit of Saint Francis which she wisely taught and wondrously confirmed … Continue reading Saint Colette<\/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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25313"}],"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=25313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}