Lent with St. Clare: Ash Wednesday
Today is the start of our Lenten journey. On our foreheads we wear ashes, a sign that we are made of dust and to dust we shall return. Such an outward sign conveys a message that words do not.
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Saint Clare of Assisi
Saint Clare referred to herself as a little plant. In many ways, she was a strong oak. The first woman to write a Rule of Life for her sisters, she insisted on the privilege of poverty until her dying breath, ...
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Loving St. Clare of Assisi
Within each of us is the potential to be a light focusing attention on God’s presence in our world. Clare of Assisi’s life reveals just how much light she shed.
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Words of Wisdom from St. Clare of Assisi
Through her writings, St. Clare offers us a guide to a stronger faith life.
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The Brief Life of St. Francis
The man who longed to be a knight, a man of war, dies a man of peace, at peace with God, with himself, and with all of creation.
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Let Us Pray: St. Clare’s Prayerful Life
The privilege of poverty, as much as I can embrace it, is an outer simplification. Advancing age reveals it to me, but Clare shows me how to maximize its revelations.
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