{"id":9297,"date":"2015-02-07T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/?p=9297"},"modified":"2015-02-07T17:02:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T16:02:03","slug":"father-and-teacher-of-monks-and-hermits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/father-and-teacher-of-monks-and-hermits\/","title":{"rendered":"Father and Teacher of monks and hermits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/romuald_bielany.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/romuald_bielany-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"romuald_bielany.jpg\" width=\"239\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>The <em>Supplemento Monastico al Messale Romano<\/em> gives the following Collect and Preface for Saint Romuald. Although of recent composition and somewhat lacking in the sobriety of more ancient Latin texts, they are not without a certain unction. The translation from the Italian is my own.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Collect<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>O Father of lights, from Whom descendeth every gift,<br \/>\nand Who didst grant unto Saint Romuald<br \/>\nperfect compunction of heart<br \/>\nand a deep spiritual intelligence of the Scriptures;<br \/>\nrenew us, we beseeech Thee, by Thy Spirit,<br \/>\nso that, by the steady and diligent hearing of Thy word,<br \/>\nwe may be conformed to Christ Thy Son.<br \/>\nWho with Thee liveth and reigneth<br \/>\nin the unity of the same Holy Spirit,<br \/>\nGod forever and ever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Preface<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is truly meet and just,<br \/>\nright and availing unto salvation,<br \/>\nthat we should at all times and in all places give thanks unto Thee,<br \/>\nO Lord, Father Almighty, and eternal God.<br \/>\nIn Thy lovingkindness<br \/>\nThou didst fill Saint Romuald,<br \/>\nthe Father and Teacher of monks and hermits,<br \/>\nwith the overflowing joy of lofty contemplation;<br \/>\nThou didst enrich him with the light of the Prophets<br \/>\nand enflame him with the zeal of the Apostles;<br \/>\nThus, by the silence of his tongue and the eloquence of his life<br \/>\ndid he lead back many into the way of salvation.<br \/>\nFor this gift of Thy bounty,<br \/>\nwe join ourselves in exultation with the angels and the saints,<br \/>\nand so sing the hymn of Thy glory:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supplemento Monastico al Messale Romano gives the following Collect and Preface for Saint Romuald. Although of recent composition and somewhat lacking in the sobriety of more ancient Latin texts, they are not without a certain unction. The translation from the Italian is my own. Collect O Father of lights, from Whom descendeth every gift, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgical-texts","category-monastic","category-saints"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-2pX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9308,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297\/revisions\/9308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}