{"id":32488,"date":"2015-08-11T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32488"},"modified":"2015-08-11T11:24:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T15:24:53","slug":"saint-clare-of-assisi-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/08\/saint-clare-of-assisi-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Clare of Assisi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"St<\/a>Today, August 11, the Church liturgically honors the memory of Saint\u00a0Clare of Assisi (1194-1253).<\/p>\n

As you know from Church history, Clare was born of a noble family of Assisi, and a serious disciple of Jesus by the time she met the famous Francis. The Franciscan tradition indicates that she had already decided as a young woman to embark on a life of penance when she spoke with Francis in 1212; she joined Francis’s new movement at the Portiuncula.<\/p>\n

A witness that attracts<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Clare was followed by\u00a0other women who joined her at the Church of San Damiano. There Clare and her sisters lived simply and prayerfully for over 40 years, supporting themselves by the work of their hands. Religious life was bursting forth with new forms when Clare and Francis founded the Friars and Sisters Minor. It is noted in the tradition that Clare had to fight to maintain her distinctive vision of religious life waiting for her\u00a0Rule to be\u00a0approved by the Pope shortly before her death in 1253.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Let’s recall an excerpt of a letter Saint Clare sent to\u00a0Saint Agnes of Prague: “As you know, i am sure, that the kingdom of heaven is promised by the Lord only to the poor, for the one who loves temporal things loses the fruit of love. . . What a great and laudable exchange: to leave the things of time for those of eternity, to choose the things of heaven for the goods of earth, to receive the hundred-fold in place of one, and to possess a blessed and eternal life!”<\/p>\n

Let us pray for the women who follow the Rule of Saint Clare.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, August 11, the Church liturgically honors the memory of Saint\u00a0Clare of Assisi (1194-1253). As you know from Church history, Clare was born of a noble family of Assisi, and a serious disciple of Jesus by the time she met the famous Francis. The Franciscan tradition indicates that she had already decided as a young … Continue reading 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\/32488"}],"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=32488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32491,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32488\/revisions\/32491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}