Poor Lady

August 12
Recalling the wonders of those days, I am reminded of the beloved firstborn of the Seraphic Father, there, in the deep silence of the austere and solemn refectory, Santa Clara, with her daughters humble and mortified, that at the rate of poverty, sing brief, clear notes of renunciation and sacrifice. The sisters go to their jobs, raise the mind to the Lord and wait in peace ... But the voice of the mother s crystal. Clara sings the Benedicite. The virgin hand rises slowly and solemnly, to bless and miraculous grimly.
On one occasion, in the monastery there was only one bread, and it was lunchtime. Hunger stomach goaded poor sisters, who, having triumphed over all, they could not forget permanently pressing needs of life. Sister Cecilia, the housekeeper, in the predicament, he resorted to the holy abbess, who sent him he left the bread in half, to send one to the brothers guarding the monastery, and to stay the other, and this that the departed in 50 pieces, as many as the sisters, and to put each hand on the table of poverty. But as the devoted daughter that would be needed to answer the ancient miracles of Jesus for a bread so small could be split into 50 parts, the mother replied, my child, go with confidence what I say.
The obedient daughter was preparing to fulfill the mandate mother and mother Clara rushes to turn to Jesus with prayers and pious sighs in favor of his daughters. And, by divine grace, the little bread increases in the hands of that part, and each sister plays abundant portion.
  (December 30, 1921, Graciela Pannullo - Ep. III, p. 1087)