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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE LIFE OF ST ROMUALD \nBy St Peter Damian4 \n◊◊◊ \nRomuald lived near the city of Parenzo for three years. In the first year he \nbuilt a monastery and appointed an abbot with monks. For the next two years \nhe remained there in seclusion. In that setting\, divine holiness transported him \nto such a summit of perfection that\, breathed upon by the Holy Spirit\, he \nforesaw many future events and comprehended with the rays of his intelligence \nhidden mysteries of the Old and New Testaments. \nFrequently he was seized by so great a contemplation of divinity that he \nwould be reduced to tears with the boiling\, indescribable heat of divine love. In \nthis condition he would cry out: Beloved Jesus\, beloved\, sweet honey\, \nindescribable longing\, delight of the saints\, sweetness of the angels\, and other \nthings of this kind. We are unable to express the ecstasy of these utterances\, \ndictated by the Holy Spirit. \nWherever the holy man might arrange to live\, he would follow the same \npattern. First he would build an oratory with an altar in a cell; then he would \nshut himself in and forbid access. \nFinally\, after he had lived in many places\, perceiving that his end was \nnear\, he returned to the monastery he had built in the valley of Castro. While he \nawaited with certainty his approaching death\, he ordered a cell to be \nconstructed there with an oratory in which he might isolate himself and \npreserve silence until death. \nAccordingly his hermitage was built\, since he had made up his mind that \nhe would die there. His body began to grow more and more oppressed by \nafflictions and was already failing\, not so much from weakness as from the \nexhaustion of great age. One day he began to feel the loss of his physical strength \nunder all the harassment of increasingly violent afflictions. As the sun was \nbeginning to set\, he instructed two monks who were standing by to go out and \nclose the door of the cell behind them; they were to come back to him at \ndaybreak to celebrate Matins. They were so concerned about his end that they \nwent out reluctantly and did not rest immediately. On the contrary\, since they \nwere worried that their master might die\, they lay hidden near the cell and \nwatched this precious treasure. For some time they continued to listen \nattentively until they heard neither movement nor sound. Rightly guessing what \nhad happened\, they pushed open the door\, rushed in quickly\, lit a candle and \nfound the holy man lying on his back\, his blessed soul snatched up into heaven. \nAs he lay there\, he seemed like a neglected heavenly pearl that was soon to be \ngiven a place of honor in the treasure of the King of kings. \n4 The Liturgy of the Hours – vol III – Catholic Book Publishing Co – New York – 1975 – pg 1472.9
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