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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Scholastica
DESCRIPTION:THE LIFE OF \nST SCHOLASTICA \nFrom Butler’s Lives of the Saints \n◊◊◊ \nSt Scholastica\, who was St Benedict’s sister\, traditionally his twin\, \nconsecrated herself to God from her earliest years\, as we learn from St Gregory. \nIt is not known where she lived\, whether at home or in a community\, but after \nher brother had moved to Monte Cassino\, she settled at Plombariola in that \nsame neighborhood\, probably founding and ruling a nunnery about five miles to \nthe south of St Benedict’s monastery. St Gregory tells us that St Benedict \ngoverned the nuns as well as the monks\, and it seems clear that St Scholastica \nmust have been their Abbess\, under his direction. She used to visit her brother \nonce a year and\, since she was not allowed to enter his monastery\, he used to go \nwith some monks to meet her at a house a little way off. They spent these visits \nin praising God and in conferring together on spiritual matters. \nSt Gregory gives a remarkable description of the last of these visits. After \nthey had passed the day as usual they sat down in the evening to have supper. \nWhen it was finished\, Scholastica\, possibly foreseeing that it would be their last \nvisit in this world\, begged her brother to delay his return till the next day that \nthey might spend the time discoursing of the joys of Heaven. Benedict\, who was \nunwilling to transgress his rule\, told her that he could not pass a night away \nfrom the monastery. \nWhen Scholastica found that she could not move him\, she laid her head \nupon her hands which were clasped together on the table and besought God to \ninterpose on her behalf. Her prayer was scarcely ended when there arose such a \nviolent storm of rain that St Benedict and his companions were unable to set \nfoot outside the door. He exclaimed\, “God forgive you sister; what have you \ndone?” Whereupon she answered\, “I asked a favor of you and you refused it. I \nasked it of God\, and He has granted it.” Benedict was therefore forced to comply \nwith her request\, and they spent the night talking about holy things. The next \nmorning they parted\, and three days later St Benedict saw the soul of his sister \nrising to heaven like a dove.
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