Tau PublishingSaint Clare of Assisi, Volume Four
The Spirituality of Her Letters: Letter Four
by Sr. Frances Teresa Downing, OSC
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- ISBN, perfect bound
- 978-1-61956-554-8
- ISBN, EPUB ebook
- 978-1-61956-908-9
- ISBN, PDF ebook
- 978-1-61956-909-6
- Pages
- 224
- Size
- 5.5 × 8.5 in
- Edition
- Perfect bound first edition, March 2017
- Language
- English
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About this book
“Gaze into this mirror every day, O Queen, Bride of Jesus Christ.” — St. Clare, Fourth Letter to Agnes of Prague
Clare’s fourth and last letter to St. Agnes of Prague, written in the year of her death, is one of the most beautiful texts of the Franciscan tradition. Sister Frances Teresa Downing gives it in full, sets it among the papal documents of the years between Clare’s third letter and her fourth, and comments on it line by line.
Essays follow on the letter as an example of lectio divina, the prayer of identification with Christ, the word and concept of ponere, and Clare and the Song of Songs. The book closes with a detailed life of St. Agnes of Prague and a chronology.
Volume Five, on Clare’s first three letters, completes the pair.
Inside
- Papal documents relevant to Agnes of Prague, 1238 to 1253
- The Fourth Letter of Saint Clare to Saint Agnes of Prague, with commentary
- Essays: lectio divina, identification with Christ, ponere, the Song of Songs
- Saint Agnes of Prague: Her Life and Times, with a chronology
