Virtual Novena to Saint Clare of Assisi

Saint Clare
in God's care

"I will
always
take care
of you."

Saint Clare is often pictured holding the monstrance as the Saracens are attacking the walls of the Monastery. Here is the account taken from the "Legend of St. Clare."
Once when the fury of the enemy pressed upon Assisi, a city dear to the Lord, and the army was already near its gates, the Saracens rushed upon San Damiano, entered the confines of the place and even the enclosure of the virgins. The hearts of the ladies melted with fear; their voices trembled with it, and they brought their tears to their mother. She, with an undaunted heart, ordered that she be brought, sick as she was, to the door and placed there before the enemy, while the silver pyx enclosed in ivory with the Body of the Holy of Holies was most devotedly reserved, preceeded her.
When she had thoroughly prostrated herself to the Lord in prayer, she said to her Christ with tears [in her eyes]: "Look, my Lord, do you wish to deliver into the hands of pagans your defenceless servants whom You have nourished with Your own Love? Lord, I beg You, defend these Your servants whom I am not able to defend at this time." Suddenly a voice from the mercy-seat of new grace, as if of a little child, resounded in her ears: "I will always defend you." "My Lord," she said, "please protect this city which for Your love sustains us." And Christ said to her: "It will suffer afflictions, but will be defended by my protection."
Then the virgin, raising her tear-filled face, comforted the weeping [sisters], saying: "My children, I guarantee, you will not suffer any harm. Just have confidence in Christ." Without delay, the subdued boldness of the Saracens began immediately to be alarmed. They were driven away by the power of the one who was praying, departing in haste over those walls which they had scaled.
Today we may not be attacked by Saracens but to each of us there comes times of great troubles. Gang shootings, drugs, sickness, people who are angry with us, unemployment, loss of loved ones. In all these, let us remember that Christ in the most Blessed Sacrament will always defend us if we, like Saint Clare "just have confidence in Christ."