Novena to St. Clare

August 12th

1. By that spirit of penance which made you take delight in the most rigorous fasts, in the most rigid poverty, and in the most severe mortifications in divesting yourself of all your wealth, and enduring the greatest sufferings that you might live for Jesus Christ alone: obtain for us, O admirable St. Clara, the grace to prefer at all times abjection to glory, poverty to riches, and mortifications to pleasures, that we may become not in name only, but in deed, true disciples of Jesus Christ. Gloria.

2. By that ardent charity and lively faith, which were your characteristics, and by the wonderful miracles which you performed for sake of charity: obtain for us all, O admirable St. Clara, to put our trust at all times in God alone, that we may be worthy to receive from His bountiful Providence all that we may need in our greatest necessities. Gloria.

3. By that especial devotion which you had to Jesus Christ in the blessed Sacrament, and which caused you to be ravished into ecstasies in His presence, by the fervent prayer which your society made before the Sacramental Host, when you were forced to make a precipitate flight before the barbarous Saracens; obtain for us, O admirable St. Clara, the grace to take our delight in frequenting the Sacraments, assisting at the holy mysteries, and in paying the most fervent devotion to the most blessed Eucharist: that we may receive consolation during the present life, and attain to the possession of eternal beatitude in the life to come. Gloria.