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Timeline (1181 - 1226)

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English version by
Regis J. Armstrong, OFM CAP & Ignatius C. Brady, OFM

Original Language
Italian

Exhortation to St. Clare and Her Sisters

Themes

Death

Lover and Beloved

Sound

Womb

Recommended Books

	All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time, by Robert Ellsberg
	Canticle of the Sun: (Calligrapher's Series), by Francis of Assisi
	Francis and Clare: The Complete Works: The Classics of Western Spirituality, Translated by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM CAP / Translated by Ignatius C. Brady, OFM
	Francis of Assisi: A Revolutionary Life , by Adrian House
	God's Fool: The Life of Francis of Assisi, by Julien Green

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Listen, little poor ones called by the Lord,
     who have come together from many parts and provinces:
Live always in truth,
     that you may die in obedience.
Do not look at the life outside,
     for that of the Spirit is better.
I beg you through great love,
     to use with discretion
     the alms which the Lord gives you.
Those who are weighed down by sickness
     and the others who are wearied because of them,
     all of you: bear it in peace.
For you will sell this fatigue at a very high price
     and each one of you will be crowned queen
     in heaven with the Virgin Mary.

1226

-- from Francis and Clare: The Complete Works: The Classics of Western Spirituality, Translated by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM CAP / Translated by Ignatius C. Brady, OFM

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