“We must faithfully keep what we have promised. If through human weakness we fail, we must always without delay arise again by means of holy penance”.
Saint Colette
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Colette
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
S. Collette (d. 1447) was of course the reformer of the women’s Franciscan Order (“Second Order”), forming what has become known as the “Poor Clares.”
In one of the great twists of history, her charter of reform of the Order was actually granted by Antipope Benedict XIII of Avignon, Pedro Martínez de Luna y Pérez de Gotor, during the years 1406-1412, so that she eventually was enabled to found over a dozen monasteries throughout France and present-day Belgium. Her reform remains vital and quietly growing today.