Night Prayers for Gesima/Lent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
During the season of Lent, the Christian, on preparing for sleep, will unite himself with the Church…
Day: February 7, 2023
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: February 7th On the sentiments of a penitent sinner
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Find interior peace with the Brief Rule of St. Romuald
The holy monk left a very short rule to follow that can open your soul to God’s presence. Find interior
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Romuald, Abbot
St. Romuald was born in Ravenna of a noble family. Founder of the Camaldolese monks — one of the Italian branches of the Benedictines — in which the eremitical life is combined with life in community…
Today’s Saint(s): St Romuald, Abbot (906-†1027)
In the tenth century Sergius, a nobleman of Ravenna, quarreled with a relative over an estate and, in a duel to which his son Romuald was witness, slew him. The young man of twenty years was horrified at his father’s crime, and entered a Benedictine monastery at Classe to do a forty days’ penance for him. This penance led to his entry into religion as a Benedictine monk…