Mar. 9 Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent; Optional Memorial of St. Frances of Rome, religious, Opt. Mem.

“I give you a new commandment: Love one another as I have loved you, says the Lord” (Jn 13:34). In the fifteenth century St. Frances, among the noble ladies of Rome, showed herself an example of what a Christian wife should be. After the death of her husband she retired from the world and lived in a monastery of Oblates that she had founded under the Rule of St. Benedict. God favored her with the visible presence of her guardian angel with whom she conversed familiarly.