Bishop Denis’ Homily for the Feast of St. Clare 11.08.2025

Introduction:We gather on August 11th, the Feast of St. Clare. Her feast is determined, like many of our saints feasts, by the date of their death – in her case it was August 11th. She was born on either January 20th or July 16th, according to the Franciscan Celsus O’Brien OFM. While there is less certainty around her birthday, there is ample evidence to determine her exact date of death – August 11th.Her name then was Chiara di Favorone. It doesn’t exactly have the ring of sanctity around it, y