Saint Romuald and the Domestic Church
Offered on the Memorial of Saint Romuald (19 June, 2019) in the Lady Chapel of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on the campus of the University of Notre Dame during solemn Evensong, a service I was asked by Dr Timothy O’Malley of the McGrath Institute for Church Life to plan and lead as Cantor, as part of one of their annual summer conferences.
Romuald is a true saint for the domestic church. He was a Benedictine monk who fell asleep on this day in the year AD 1027. In Dante’s Divine Comedy, we find at one point Saint Benedict himself indicating to the pilgrim the presence of contemplatives…
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