Sandra Schweitzer, OSF, detail of "Clare is Not Dissuaded," Prayer Print #9, Studio Tau, 2003. Schweitzer's painting represents how she imagines Clare at the Benedictine convent that first took her in when she chose to follow Francis; Clare's relatives came to force her to return home, but she met them in the chapel where she could calmly assert her will to stay on her journey in the way of Francis.
by GSR Staff
But with swift pace, light step and unswerving feet, so that even your steps stir up no dust, go forward securely, joyfully and swiftly, on the path of prudent happiness, believing nothing, agreeing with nothing which would dissuade you from this resolution or which would place a stumbling block for you on the way, so that you may offer your vows to the Most High in pursuit of that perfection to which the Spirit of the Lord has called you.
- From the Second Letter to Agnes from Clare of Assisi