One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may
dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of
the LORD and to seek him in his temple. -Psalm
27:4
"Better to pray one psalm with
devotion and compunction
than a hundred with distraction."
- St Romuald
Saint
Romuald was frequently moved to tears during the celebration of Mass, such was
his experience of Jesus in the Consecration. From his biography written by Saint
Peter Damian just fifteen years after his death:
“Frequently he was
seized by so great a contemplation of divinity that
he would be reduced to tears with the boiling, indescribable heat of divine
love. In this condition he would cry out: Beloved
Jesus, beloved, sweet honey, indescribable longing, delight of the saints,
sweetness of angels, and other things of this kind. We are unable to express
the ecstasy of these utterances, dictated by the Holy Spirit.”
St Romuald
Italy ~ 950 - 1027
Monk , Founder of Camoldese Order
Incorrupt
Feast Day - June 19
From the writings of Saint Damian: “St. Romuald built
many other monasteries, and continued three years at one he founded near
Parenzo, one year in the community to settle it, and two in a neighboring cell.
Here he labored some time under a spiritual dryness, not being able to shed one
tear; but he ceased not to continue his devotions with greater fervor. At last
being in his cell, at those words of the psalmist, "I will give thee
understanding, and will instruct thee," he was suddenly visited by God with an
extraordinary light and spirit of compunction, which from that time never left
him. By a supernatural light, the fruit of prayer, he understood the holy
scriptures, and wrote an exposition of the psalms full of admirable unction. He
often foretold things to come, and gave directions full of heavenly wisdom to
all who came to consult him, especially to his religious who frequently came to
ask his advice on how to advance in virtue, and how to resist temptations. He
always sent them back to their cells full of an extraordinary
cheerfulness."
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