No one who has not lived in a cloister can fully understand just how intertwined are the lives of cloistered nuns.
Cloistered nuns rub souls as well as elbows all their lives, and if they do not step out of themselves to get a true perspective, they can
become small-souled and petty and remain immature children all their lives long. But, as Mother Mary Francis points out, they also have "as great a
right to be merry as any lady in the world.">> READ MORE OR ORDER
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Following up her very popular book about the happiness of the contemplative life, A Right to be Merry,
Mother Mary Francis tells the story of how a cloistered Poor Clare Community, wholly content to stay where it was, is called forth by God to go abroad and
found five more contemplative communities. >> READ MORE OR ORDER
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"The poems of Mother Mary Francis, P.C.C., arise - blossom would be a better word - in that region where our human experience
finds itself challenged by faith - by The Faith, really. One is awakened by the demanding syntax, the fresh vocabulary, and the curious focus (on everything from
a turtle's eye to a Ph. D. examination to the Stations of the Cross). A book to be kept near one's breviary, one's missal, and one's Bible." --Thomas Howard
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These meditations on the famous prayer of St. Ignatius by a Poor Clare nun and well-regarded spiritual writer will help
every reader deepen his prayer life and draw closer to the Person of Christ. Popes, saints, and common folk have made this their daily prayer for centuries.
Let the Abbess of cloistered nuns help you reflect deeper on the profound thoughts of this prayer that are needed to shape a devout life in Christ.
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In these gentle, simple, yet profound conferences, Mother Mary Francis, P.C.C., explores both the necessity and the difficulty
of Christian friendship. Friendship is the basis of all fruitful love, she wrote. Whether we are single or married, priest or religious, the Lord himself called
us his friends and commanded us to be the friends of one another. With this small volume, Mother Mary Francis inspires us and helps us to be patient by revealing
both the demands and the rewards of our vocation to love and be loved.
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