During the upcoming weekes I will be doing spreads about Saint Brigid, because her feast day, and Imbolc is coming in the beginning of February. I start with a story from her youth.

When Brigid was young, she was once sent to help the dairymaids with milking of the cows. The milk would be made into butter for the household. Brigid milked her cows ( Read more... )

Clare stimulates Agnes to contemplate the Poor Christ and to suffer with him. The cards for day 13 and 14 focused on the contemplation and the suffering with Christ. Today the focus is on the rewards.

“(22) (…) your name will be recorded in the Book of Life and will bring you glory among men and women.”

What does contemplating and suffering with ( Read more... )

Clare of Assisi comforts Agnes of Prague in her Second Letter (1235-38). She stimulates Agnes to contemplate the Poor Christ and to suffer with him. The cards for day 13, 14 and 15 in this Advent period revolve around the contemplation and the suffering with Christ.

“(21) If you suffer with him, with him you will reign, grieving with him, with him ( Read more... )

Clare of Assisi comforts Agnes of Prague in her Second Letter (1235-38) by telling her to set her eyes on Christ, and to suffer with him. The cards for day 13, 14 and 15 in this Advent period revolve around the contemplation, and suffering with Christ 9 (19-22).

“(19) Now that you have made yourself contemptible in this world for his sake, look ( Read more... )

The excerpt that inspires the card for today comes again from the First Letter of Clare of Assisi to Agnes of Prague (1234), and is about poverty, just as yesterday’s card. Clare of Assisi and Agnes of Prague dedicated their lives to poverty.

“(15) O blessed poverty
that provides eternal riches to those who
love and embrace it!

(16) O holy poverty ( Read more... )

The excerpt that inspires the card for today comes from the First Letter of Clare of Assisi to Agnes of Prague, a princess. Agnes had rejected a marriage with Emperor Frederick II, and had established a monastery for women instead. This monastery had no means of income except gifts. In this she followed Clare of Assisi, who took the same step 22 ( Read more... )

An excerpt of the First Letter of Clare of Assisi to Agnes of Prague inspires the card of this second day of Advent. Clare of Assisi was a girl from well-off parents, who followed in the footsteps of Francis of Assisi. She was the founder and the abbess of a monastery for women, San Damiano. Agnes of Prague was a princess who rejected a marriage ( Read more... )