Cloisters
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March 6 is the feast of St. Colette of Corbie. She became a Secular Franciscan, then an anchoress attached to the parish church in Corbie. (The scars of her anchorage are still visible, including the red-brick used to close up her “squint”, or window, used to view the Mass).
A book by Mother Mary Francis, PCC, (RIP), “Walled in Light” is a biography of St. Colette. I highly recommend it. Mother describes the revelations St. Colette received when being summoned to reform the Poor Clares. The Poor Clare Colettines, as the reform branch is known, go completely barefoot, and used to have a wimple that covered even their chins.
Here is a wiki article about them. Most of the US Colettines are linked at the end of the entry:
Colettine Poor Clares - Wikipedia
As always, please pray for an increase in vocations to the Poor Clare Coletttines.
Blessings,
Mrs Cloisters OP
Lay Dominican
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A book by Mother Mary Francis, PCC, (RIP), “Walled in Light” is a biography of St. Colette. I highly recommend it. Mother describes the revelations St. Colette received when being summoned to reform the Poor Clares. The Poor Clare Colettines, as the reform branch is known, go completely barefoot, and used to have a wimple that covered even their chins.
Here is a wiki article about them. Most of the US Colettines are linked at the end of the entry:
Colettine Poor Clares - Wikipedia
As always, please pray for an increase in vocations to the Poor Clare Coletttines.
Blessings,
Mrs Cloisters OP
Lay Dominican
http://cloisters.tripod.com/
http://cloisters.tripod.com/charity/