Monday, August 11, 2008

The Feast of St. Clare of Assisi

St. Clare

I want to recommend an inspiring little article called Clare: A woman for our times. Here's one paragraph:

She was also the first woman in church history to write a rule of life for religious women and to get it approved. This was something very close to her heart, as several different religious rules had been imposed on them, none of which reflected the Franciscan ideal that she wanted to live. So, she set about writing her own ‘Form of Life', and had it approved by the pope on her deathbed, just the day before she died! Two years later (1255) her name was enrolled among the saints.

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