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Saint Romuald
St. Romuald was born at Ravenna around the year 956. Romuald lived much
of his early life in a worldly way but realized his errors and the danger of this
type of living when he was asked to serve as witness to a duel. At the duel
one of the men fighting was slain and this struck Romuald to the heart. To
pay for his sins and to pray for the soul of the slain man, Romuald took a
forty-day retreat at the monastery of St. Apollinare.
While in the monastery serving his self imposed penance, Romuald felt called
to the monastic life. After finishing his retreat, Romuald entered the
monastery. Romuald grew in holiness and provided an excellent example of
piety to the community. In the year 996, Romuald was asked to serve the
community as abbot. He held this position for three years and used his
influence to begin other monasteries throughout the area. After finishing three
years as abbot, Romuald resigned, founded the Order of Camaldoli and
dedicated himself to living a more austere life in this order. St. Romuald died in
the year 1027, after many years living the austere Rule of the order he
founded. Romuald was canonized in the year 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII.
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Quote for the Day:
What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God?s eyes, our best.
Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling.
For these may come from a deeper level than feeling.
God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately
when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
C.S. Lewis
Quote from the book, "101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer"
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Must share this with you... a comment from yesterday's card (just in case you never get around to reading the comments) about getting holy....Effie wrote this....
About the "getting holy" part though, I must share with you a bumper sticker that I never forgot: "Don't wait to repent at the 11th hour, you may die at 10:30" !!! LOL
That is very funny!
My sister Euli was over last weekend with her kids to visit meself, my brother and his family and of course.. most of all... MOM. . Here are a few pictures when we took mom back to her place. One thing my mom always impressed me was her generosity. She always had to give us something.. whether it was a glass of water or a cute pine cone she found on a walk or one of her latest cookbooks. She might have dementia now but her generous spirit is still as strong as ever. Here she looked about and found a cute little stuffed puppy to give as a present to Euli.
I will say the puppy was very cute. I know because I bought him. We all love to buy her little stuffed animals.. knowing that they will be passed on to someone else at some point... but that's the gift that keeps on giving! None of us mind.. we all know ahead of time.. the gift is for the present moment.. not forever! And it makes Mom so happy to be able to give something cute or nice to someone.
When you think about it... God does this for us all the time. He gives to us so we can give to others... and everybody is happy giving. And of course its nice to receive too.... especially when its given with great love!
Blessings of Peace and All Good,
Sister Patricia and all the Sisters
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Sr Patricia
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