Revelations of Grace
As Catholics, we find our houses and our world haunted by a sense that the objects, events, and persons of daily life are revelations of grace.
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The Grace of Sabbath
The practice of Sabbath also has the effect of elevating the value of labor and of the people engaged in it.
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Embracing Our Limits
The deeper my love the more particular it becomes and the more limited in scope. It is only through such particulars that we can come to save the creation.
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All the World Is Gift
When we exist in a world of gift, in which we ourselves are given, then our own labors must be gifts to those around us.
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The Mirror of Jesus
Clare’s writings often include the metaphor of a mirror. In Francis’s body she beheld a stark mirror of the Passion. She then taught the sisters how clearly they must pattern their lives on that of Jesus. He had to become ...
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Living in Community
Clare's “peace surpassing understanding” drew them daily into her orbit of sisterly solidarity.
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New Beginnings
Clare recalled these new beginnings in later years. That she and her sisters had survived the painful trials of the foundation was not nearly as surprising to her as it was to Francis
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