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St. Francis changed the world with his Gospel-infused spirituality, but he was also free to be an itinerant. His sister in faith, Clare, was just as effective in evangelizing without ever leaving San Damiano.
The focus of this special feast day episode is St. Clare of Assisi’s remarkable, poetic letters to another woman of nobility, St. Agnes of Prague. Guiding listeners through these four letters is Sister Joanne Schatzlein, OSF, a Franciscan scholar, co-author of a major study on Clare of Assisi, and lifelong student of her spirituality. Sister Joanne is a member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, whose Motherhouse is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and entered her Congregation in 1965. In this episode, Sister Joanne echoes to us Clare’s invitation to Agnes: to gaze, consider, contemplate, and imitate in our lives what Christ has taught us.
I’ve always been fascinated by how St. Clare drew so close to God in prayer while living most of her life entirely within the enclosure of San Damiano.
Prayer cannot be judged on the basis of “highs” or “feel-good” experiences.
To know God is to know the human person since the mystery of God is the human person.
Sister Margaret Carney, OSF, explains how Saint Clare’s leadership structure is needed today.
Francis and Clare did not let the old get in the way of the new, but like all religious geniuses, revealed what the old was saying all along.
(OSV News) — On the same day dioceses around the world inaugurated the Jubilee Year, meant to be a time of hope amid a world
Francis was canonized a mere two years after he died. Clare lived on for another twenty-seven years.
Clare protects and offers us a contemplative spirituality for both women and men.
