Today is the Feast of St. Clare of Assisi, one of my favorite saints and guardian angels. Her life reveals one of the highest and purest forms of love for God. Many people have asked questions like these :
" What kind of love can make a young, beautiful, out-going girl leave a life of ease, attention and freedom for the cloister of drab, rigid, contemplative nuns? What kind of love can make a young girl give up her noble birth and heritage in a castle for the small, lonely, materially impoverished monastery? What kind of love can make a young girl abandon the luxury of possessions and goods for daily subsistence on alms and give-aways? What kind of love can make a girl of noble birth embrace a life of absolute poverty and consider it a privilege to live without privileges?
It is a love touched by God to be in complete harmony with Him - an "imitation" of Christ - in form and substance!
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