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[s.n.m.p.]

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SAINT CLARE, VIRGIN, FOUNDRESS OF THE POOR CLARES 1193-1253
Feast: August 11
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The Lady Clare, "shining in name, more shining in life," was born in the town of Assisi about the year 1193. Her mother was to become Blessed Ortolana di Fiumi. Her father is said to have been Favorino Scifi, Count of Sasso-Rosso, though whether he came of that noble branch of the Scifi family is not certain. Concerning Clare's childhood we have no reliable information. She was eighteen years old when St. Francis, preaching the Lenten sermons at the church of St. George in Assisi, influenced her to change the whole course of her life. It is likely that a marriage not to her liking had been proposed; at any rate, she went secretly to see Friar Francis and asked him to help her to live "after the manner of the Holy Gospel." Talking with him strengthened her desire to leave all worldly things behind and live for Christ. On Palm Sunday of that year, 1212, she came to the cathedral of Assisi for the blessing of palms, but when the others went up to the altar-rails to receive their branch of green, a sudden shyness kept Clare back. The bishop saw it and came down from the altar and gave her a branch.
The following evening she slipped away from her home and hurried through the woods to the chapel of the Portiuncula, where Francis was then living with his small community. He and his brethren had been at prayers before the altar and met her at the door with lighted tapers in their hands. Before the Blessed Virgin's altar Clare laid off her fine cloak, Francis sheared her hair, and gave her his own penitential habit, a tunic of coarse cloth tied with a cord. Then, since as yet he had no nunnery, he took her at once for safety to the Benedictine convent of St. Paul, where she was affectionately welcomed.

When it was known at home what Clare had done, relatives and friends came to rescue her. She resisted valiantly when they tried to drag her away, clinging to the convent altar so firmly as to pull the cloths half off. Baring her shorn head, she declared that Christ had called her to His service, she would have no other spouse, and the more they continued their persecutions the more steadfast she would become. Francis had her removed to the nunnery of Sant' Angelo di Panzo, where her sister Agnes, a child of fourteen, joined her. This meant more difficulty for them both, but Agnes' constancy too was victorious, and in spite of her youth Francis gave her the habit. Later he placed them in a small and humble house, adjacent to his beloved church of St. Damian, on the outskirts of Assisi, and in 1215, when Clare was about twenty-two, he appointed her superior and gave her his rule to live by. She was soon joined by her mother and several other women, to the number of sixteen. They had all felt the strong appeal of poverty and sackcloth, and without regret gave up their titles and estates to become Clare's humble disciples. Within a few years similar convents were founded in the Italian cities of Perugia, Padua, Rome, Venice, Mantua, Bologna, Milan, Siena, and Pisa, and also in various parts of France and Germany. Agnes, daughter of the King of Bohemia, established a nunnery of this order in Prague, and took the habit herself.

The "Poor Clares," as they came to be known, practiced austerities which until then were unusual among women. They went barefoot, slept on the ground, observed a perpetual abstinence from meat, and spoke only when obliged to do so by necessity or charity. Clare herself considered this silence desirable as a means of avoiding the innumerable sins of the tongue, and for keeping the mind steadily fixed on God. Not content with the fasts and other mortifications required by the rule, she wore next her skin a rough shirt of hair, fasted on vigils and every day in Lent on bread and water, and on some days ate nothing. Francis or the bishop of Assisi sometimes had to command her to lie on a mattress and to take a little nourishment every day.

Discretion, came with years, and much later Clare wrote this sound advice to Agnes of Bohemia: "Since our bodies are not of brass and our strength is not the strength of stone, but instead we are weak and subject to corporal infirmities, I implore you vehemently in the Lord to refrain from the exceeding rigor of abstinence which I know you practice, so that living and hoping in the Lord you may offer Him a reasonable service and a sacrifice seasoned with the salt of prudence."

[s.n.m.p.]

Nag mass ko ganina kay pista ni St. Clare. Touch kaayu ko sa wali sa pari. If tanan lang tawo mosunod sa life ni st. clare of simplicity and humility ok unta ato katilingban. Daw nagluha ako mata sa dihang miingon ang pari nga wala nay moralidad ato katilingban. Ang mga binuhatan nga hiwi i cover up instead kuno nga koreksyunan. Naghari ang mga jueteng lord ug cheating lord. Ang mga senador ug Congressman wa nay moral moorings. Its all about money.

Dapat maminaw unta si GMA sa mensahe sa Diyos. Di pwede ang mamakak ug ang manikas.

Para kaninyo nga gusto moambit sa kapistahan ni St. Clare ang monasteryo sa mga mongha anaa nahimutang sa Tayud, Liloan, Cebu. Kung naa mo sakyanan or kung guustong lang gyud mo maka experience ug spiritual high, apas lang mo sa pista karun. You wont regret it.

[richard79]

Nag mass ko ganina kay pista ni St. Clare.Â* Touch kaayu ko sa wali sa pari.Â* If tanan lang tawo mosunod sa life ni st. clare of simplicity and humility ok unta ato katilingban.Â* Daw nagluha ako mata sa dihang miingon ang pari nga wala nay moralidad ato katilingban. Ang mga binuhatan nga hiwi i cover up instead kuno nga koreksyunan.Â* Naghari ang mga jueteng lord ug cheating lord.Â* Ang mga senador ug Congressman wa nay moral moorings.Â* Its all about money.

Dapat maminaw unta si GMA sa mensahe sa Diyos.Â* Di pwede ang mamakak ug ang manikas.Â*

Para kaninyo nga gusto moambit sa kapistahan ni St. Clare ang monasteryo sa mga mongha anaa nahimutang sa Tayud, Liloan, Cebu.Â* Kung naa mo sakyanan or kung guustong lang gyud mo maka experience ug spiritual high, apas lang mo sa pista karun.Â* You wont regret it.

Good at least na touch ka sa wale... talagsaon ra gyud ka nga matouch ka sa wale sa pare.... coz most of their wale balik balik unya gdali dali.... naa panang pare sa sto. rosario nga every sunday 3pm kanang bugalbugalon usahay morag dili pare mowale... og kanang pare sa st. therese.....

[s.n.m.p.]

Sagdi lang na. Ang mas importante sa misa ang consecration dili ang wale. Wa na lang gyud kay maayong ikasulti para sa Katoliko? Please be respectful pud sa religious preference sa uban. Kung gusto ka join na lang sa away sa Kang eli soriano ug sa iglesia ni kristo. magamit pa na imo talent didto.

[pandisal]

wahhh... asa pista karon.. mamista ta!!!! :mrgreen:

good 'ol days.. going from one house to another to eat a buffet of lechon, pantsit en etc.... over
n' over.... hmmm gutom na nuon ko....

[s.n.m.p.]

Kaon ra man imo nahibaw-an.

[dacs]

Good at least na touch ka sa wale... talagsaon ra gyud ka nga matouch ka sa wale sa pare.... coz most of their wale balik balik unya gdali dali.... naa panang pare sa sto. rosario nga every sunday 3pm kanang bugalbugalon usahay morag dili pare mowale... og kanang pare sa st. therese.....

Nalingaw na gyud ko nimo, bay! Sige lang ka ug pangispiya sa Sto. Rosario ug St. Therese?! Layua man ka ug naabtan. So, kung naminaw ka sa mga wale, dugay2x gyud ka didto. Aw, dali2x man diay no. Gikan Sto. Rosario, sakay jeep para Lahug... Kasa nimo'g plete kada Domingo no?! Gisunodsunod gyud siguro na nimong paria no?

Or ...

Mga outdated information ra ni imoha, unya hangtud karon gidaladala gihapon nimo. Upgrade sad ka, bay, uy!

Or ...

You have a problem, and you need help.

[bebie]

"Good at least na touch ka sa wale... talagsaon ra gyud ka nga matouch ka sa wale sa pare.... coz most of their wale balik balik unya gdali dali.... naa panang pare sa sto. rosario nga every sunday 3pm kanang bugalbugalon usahay morag dili pare mowale... og kanang pare sa st. therese..... "

@richard79
Sir...I think doesn't matter on how the Priest deliver or explaine the Word of God... it is in the heart of individual, like you how, you apply it toward ur invirons. You are Right! Uban pare ilang wali balik balik unya gadali pa..but for me I DON'T CARE I was there only , in the first place "GOD" and 2nd the "Word of God" but not the one who deliver it, ug usa pa dili ko gusto makadongog pa anang Word na humana nako mapaminaw, no problems in me upon listening that Word of God I know what God meant to us, but what about those people na wala maminaw og wala makuha ang onod sa wali? Sir.. i have a simple suggestion on you, go to church in weekends w/no Priest na mo wali sa imo and don't forget to bring a bible.

[narsing]

inig lunes kay bisperas sa pista ni Sr. San Roque sa Cordova. katultol mo ana? mamista ta ninyo!!!!!!!!!!!

[s.n.m.p.]

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THE ASSUMPTION OF MARY: A BELIEF SINCE APOSTOLIC TIMES
Father Clifford Stevens August 15, 2005
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The Assumption is the oldest feast day of Our Lady, but we don't know how it first came to be celebrated.

Its origin is lost in those days when Jerusalem was restored as a sacred city, at the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine (c. 285-337). By then it had been a pagan city for two centuries, ever since Emperor Hadrian (76-13 had leveled it around the year 135 and rebuilt it as <Aelia Capitolina> in honor of Jupiter.

For 200 years, every memory of Jesus was obliterated from the city, and the sites made holy by His life, death and Resurrection became pagan temples.

After the building of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 336, the sacred sites began to be restored and memories of the life of Our Lord began to be celebrated by the people of Jerusalem. One of the memories about his mother centered around the "Tomb of Mary," close to Mount Zion, where the early Christian community had lived.

On the hill itself was the "Place of Dormition," the spot of Mary's "falling asleep," where she had died. The "Tomb of Mary" was where she was buried.

At this time, the "Memory of Mary" was being celebrated. Later it was to become our feast of the Assumption.

For a time, the "Memory of Mary" was marked only in Palestine, but then it was extended by the emperor to all the churches of the East. In the seventh century, it began to be celebrated in Rome under the title of the "Falling Asleep" ("Dormitio") of the Mother of God.

Soon the name was changed to the "Assumption of Mary," since there was more to the feast than her dying. It also proclaimed that she had been taken up, body and soul, into heaven.

That belief was ancient, dating back to the apostles themselves. What was clear from the beginning was that there were no relics of Mary to be venerated, and that an empty tomb stood on the edge of Jerusalem near the site of her death. That location also soon became a place of pilgrimage. (Today, the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition of Mary stands on the spot.)

The Assumption completes God's work in her since it was not fitting that the flesh that had given life to God himself should ever undergo corruption. The Assumption is God's crowning of His work as Mary ends her earthly life and enters eternity. The feast turns our eyes in that direction, where we will follow when our earthly life is over.

The feast days of the Church are not just the commemoration of historical events; they do not look only to the past. They look to the present and to the future and give us an insight into our own relationship with God. The Assumption looks to eternity and gives us hope that we, too, will follow Our Lady when our life is ended.

The prayer for the feast reads: "All-powerful and ever-living God: You raised the sinless Virgin Mary, mother of your Son, body and soul, to the glory of heaven. May we see heaven as our final goal and come to share her glory."

In 1950, in the Apostolic Constitution <Munificentissimus Deus>, Pope Pius XII proclaimed the Assumption of Mary a dogma of the Catholic Church in these words: "The Immaculate Mother of God, the ever-virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heaven."

With that, an ancient belief became Catholic doctrine and the Assumption was declared a truth revealed by God.