A Watch in the Night Pieper “because she has received the

“because she has received the plenitude of graces for herself and because she is the dispensatrix of graces for all the saints

ISBN: 978-1685950118

perhaps none expresses that sheer joy more emphatically than The Flowering Tree and its twenty-eight “Rhythms

his books include The Christmas Book (1952)

“There is only one way I care for

A Watch in the Night Pieper “because she has received theBy Helen C. White A Watch in the Night tells of one Jacopone da Todi, a famous poet of the Middle Ages. Devastated by the sudden death of his wife, Jacopone forsakes all his earthy possessions, undertaking a new life of asceticism and penance and eventually joining the Franciscan Order. There he assumes a critical role in the Orders internal struggles between the Conventuals, who affirm a more lenient interpretation of St. Franciss rule, and