While in a state of ecstasy after receiving holy Communion, St. Colette foretold the date of her own death. She died of natural causes on March 6, , in Belgium.
She was 66 years old. Prayer: St. Colette, you followed your heart and worked to make your vision a reality, even though many others opposed your work. Colette reintroduced the primitive Rule of St. Clare in the 17 monasteries she established.
May the Father in his mercy, and the son by his passion, and the Holy Spirit, the fountain of peace and sweetness and love fill you with all consolations. Their website is here. Later she lived for a while as a recluse. Benedict allowed her to enter to the order of Poor Clares and empowered her by several Bulls, dated , , , and to found new convents and complete the reform of the order. With the approval of the Countess of Geneva and the Franciscan Henri de la Beaume, her confessor and spiritual guide, Colette began her work at Beaume, in the Diocese of Geneva.
Thence her reform spread to Auxonne , to Poligny, to Ghent , to Heidelberg , to Amiens, etc. She also inaugurated a reform among the Franciscan friars the Coletani , not to be confounded with the Observants.
These Coletani remained obedient to the authority of the provincial of the Franciscan convents, and never attained much importance even in France. In they had only thirteen convents, and together with other small branches of the Franciscan Order were suppressed in by Leo X.
Colette was beatified 23 January, , and canonized 24 May, She was not only a woman of sincere piety, but also intelligent and energetic, and exercised a remarkable moral power over all her associates.
She was very austere and mortified in her life, for which God rewarded her by supernatural favours and the gift of miracles. For the convents reformed by her she prescribed extreme poverty, to go barefooted, and the observance of perpetual fast and abstinence. Blessed be the Holy Spirit by whom He was conceived. Blessed be the glorious Virgin Mary of whom the Incarnate Word was born. May the Lord hear our prayers through the intercession of the glorious Virgin Mary and in memory of that most sacred hour in which the Incarnate Word was born, that all our desires may be accomplished for your glory and our salvation.
O good Jesus! O Jesus our Redeemer, do not abandon us as our sins deserve, but hear our humble prayer and grant what we ask through the intercession of the most blessed Virgin Mary and for the glory of Your Holy Name. As God pleases, As God wills. Let us praise the Father in his mercy and the Son by His passion and the Holy Spirit the fountain of peace and sweetness and love. Amen, amen without recall! Dear Lady and especially loved in Our Lord Jesus Christ, as much and as humbly as I can and may, I recommend myself always to your good grace and in your devout prayers and supplications before Our Lord Jesus Christ.
I beg you to strive ceaselessly to go from strength to strength in his most perfect love, remaining continually, strong and virtuous in his most holy and worthy service; for the kingdom is promised to those who set out on this way, but it is to those who persevere loyally that the crown will be given. And as long as we are alive there will be many perils, especially from our enemies, the world and the flesh, who day and night wage war on us in numberless ways.
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Hi readers, it seems you use Catholic Online a lot; that's great! St Colette de Corbie endured untold hardships in fulfilling the task assigned to her, but heaven supported her even in visible ways; numerous miracles, including the raising to life of several dead persons, occurred in answer to her prayers and in confirmation of her work.
So, the great foundress remained ever humble, regarding everything as the work of God, who often chooses the lowliest of people as His instruments. On this foundation of humility she endeavored to foster in her convents the spirit of prayer and simplicity of heart, she placed great value on the recitation of the Divine Office in choir, undoubtedly in remembrance of the practice existing in her native town, and infused this esteem into her fellow sisters.
She was also filled with zeal for the salvation of souls, and once in a vision she saw souls falling into hell more swiftly than the snowflakes in a winter's storm. St Colette reformed the Order of Poor Clare's and founded a branch of the Order that is still known as the Colettines. St Colette had a special devotion to St John the Apostle, who appeared to her on one occasion to place a miraculous ring on her finger. As he did so, he said: "by my own right and on behalf of the sovereign King and Prince of virginity and chastity.
St Colette had a great desire for a relic of the True Cross. One day when she was contemplating Our Lord's suffering in the midst of her community, she was drawn into an ecstasy.
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