An emotional letter from the great saint Clare of Assisi is usually read, which she lovingly sent to her friend Saint Agnes of Prague to increase his love for Christ.
Saint Clare of Assisi begins her letter by calling blessed those who have the opportunity to receive the Eucharist at Holy Mass and “to unite in the depths of their hearts with him whose beauty the heavenly multitudes incessantly admire, whose affection produces affection, whose contemplation gives new strength”.
“Whose benignity satisfies, whose softness fills the soul, whose memory gently illuminates, whose fragrance will bring the dead back to life, and whose glorious vision will make the citizens of heavenly Jerusalem happy.”
In this regard, he makes a call to observe himself daily in Jesus Christ, who is the mirror in which “blissful poverty, holy humility, and ineffable charity shine, as you can see if, with the grace of God, you go through its various parts”.
“Pay attention to the principle of this mirror, I mean to the poverty of the one who was put in a manger and wrapped in swaddling clothes. Oh admirable humility, oh astonishing poverty! The King of angels, the Lord of heaven and earth is reclining in a manger ”, he exalts.
In this sense, he asks to consider the poverty, work and hardships that our Lord had to go through “for the redemption of the human race”, even on the cross to “die on it with the most infamous kind of death”.
“In this way, your charity will burn with an ever-renewed force, oh queen of the heavenly King. Contemplating, moreover, the ineffable delights of him, his riches, and perpetual honors”.
Finally, Santa Clara asks her friend Saint Agnes of Prague, who was the daughter of kings and embraced the monastic life, to remember “this insignificant mother of yours”, reminding her that she has her “pleasant memory indelibly engraved in my heart ”.