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See who got Educated at the Skaggs Catholic Center!
These are some of the lucky winners of a copy of the book, Educated by Tara Westover. These books were given to them by Random House Books after a virtual event hosted by The King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City. Many thanks to the publisher and TKE!

Clare of Assisi (Born 16 July 1194) Traditional accounts say that Clare's father was a wealthy representative of an ancient Roman family, who owned a large palace in Assisi and a castle on the slope of Mount Subasio. Clare gave up her worldly advantages and wealth and devoted herself to God.
It is assumed that Clare was to be married in line with the family tradition. However, as a teen she heard Francis preach during a Lenten service in the church of San Giorgio at Assisi and asked him to help her to live after the manner of the Gospel.
Francis placed Clare in the convent of the Benedictine nuns of San Paulo, near Bastia. Her father attempted to force her to return home. She clung to the altar of the church and threw aside her veil to show her cropped hair. She resisted any attempt, professing that she would have no other husband but Jesus Christ.
Pope Pius XII designated Clare as the patron saint of television in 1958 on the basis that when she was too ill to attend Mass, she had reportedly been able to see and hear it on the wall of her room.
St. Clare, through her writings, letters, prayer and example, helped generations of Catholics and Christrians see how Christ took on human flesh, not just to suffer and die for us, but to help us reflect back the face of Christ to the world.

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Have you spoken up against wrongdoers? What gave you the courage?
In The Hate U Give, there are countless examples of bystanders and courageous heros. Let’s have hard conversations and teach our children to be heroes: for themselves, for their neighbors, for the friendless, for the marginalized. We are all God’s children.