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Today is August 11, the Memorial of St. Clare, Virgin.
We read at today’s Mass, “Moses said to the people: ‘And now, Israel, what does the LORD, your God, ask of you but to fear the LORD, your God, and follow his ways exactly, to love and serve the LORD, your God, with all your heart and all your soul, to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD which I enjoin on you today for your own good?'” (Dt 10:12-13)
Today Deuteronomy poses a bold and beautiful question: “What does the Lord ask of you?” Moses answers: to love, to serve, to follow and to fear the Lord not out of dread, but out of reverence and devotion.
But how do we actually do this? How do we respond to such a high call every day?
St. Clare gives us an answer in one of her letters to her spiritual daughter, Sister Agnes of Prague. In it, she offers a striking image for the spiritual life: the mirror of Christ.
Continued below.
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We read at today’s Mass, “Moses said to the people: ‘And now, Israel, what does the LORD, your God, ask of you but to fear the LORD, your God, and follow his ways exactly, to love and serve the LORD, your God, with all your heart and all your soul, to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD which I enjoin on you today for your own good?'” (Dt 10:12-13)
Today Deuteronomy poses a bold and beautiful question: “What does the Lord ask of you?” Moses answers: to love, to serve, to follow and to fear the Lord not out of dread, but out of reverence and devotion.
But how do we actually do this? How do we respond to such a high call every day?
St. Clare gives us an answer in one of her letters to her spiritual daughter, Sister Agnes of Prague. In it, she offers a striking image for the spiritual life: the mirror of Christ.
Continued below.
A mirror of God's majesty
On the feast of St. Clare of Assisi, we are called to love, serve and be transformed by grace through the mirror of Christ.
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