MARY, OUR MOTHER: [MaryVitamin] St. Clare and Marianization

Monday, August 11, 2008

[MaryVitamin] St. Clare and Marianization

Mary Vitamin for August 11^th

Feast of St. Clare

Topic: St. Clare's following the charism of St. Francis led to her complete Marianization

Quote:

St. Clare of Assisi

"As the glorious Virgin bore the God-Man within her, so we, if we imitate Mary in her poverty and humility may carry that same Saviour spiritually in our hearts, thus containing in ourselves Him, the Lord who in Himself contains all things."

Nesta de Robeck, St. Clare of Assisi, (Franciscan Herald Press: 1980), 108.

Meditation:

St. Clare explains her understanding of poverty,

"On one side there is Jesus, lying in the manger in the midst of the utmost poverty and wrapped in miserable clothes. O admirable humility! O stupefying poverty! The King of angels, the Saviour of heaven and earth lies in the manger. In the middle of this mirror you will see holy and humble poverty for love of whom the Saviour consented to suffer so grievously for the redemption of mankind. Then look at the other side which shows that ineffable love which flung the Saviour on to the wood of the cross there to die an infamous death. Let us put down our mirror on the cross; and we shall understand those words which fall on each of us:

'O all you who pass by this way, stay and see whether there be any sorrow like to Mine.'"

From a letter of St. Clare to Blessed Agnes of Prague

Nesta de Robeck, St. Clare of Assisi, (Franciscan Herald Press: 1980), 112.

Resolution:

St. Francis says the most difficult and important of all poverty is to practice the poverty of one's own will which we see the Lord practice in Bethlehem ("We have no room") and in the Garden of Gethsemane ("Not My Will by Thine be done.")

Today, one time, I will choose something that is not of my will, in order to imitate Our Lady in her poverty and her humility.

Marian Vow:

St. Peter Chrysologus, Bishop & Doctor

"Let no man say, 'I have nothing'; since God asks of you, not what you have not, but what you have. For the two brass mites of the widow were received as acceptable to God. Let us be generous to the Creator, that His creation may be generous to us."

Volume Four of the Sunday Sermons of the Great Fathers, (Preservation Press),122

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thanks be to God for graces received.

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‘I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head.’

(Gen. 3:15)

“Since the devil is the head of original sin, this head it was that Mary crushed: for sin never had any entry into the soul of this Blessed Virgin, which was consequently free from all stain.”

Saint Augustine

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

Monday, August 11, 2008

[MaryVitamin] St. Clare and Marianization

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