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Firstborn of many brothers
On Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter our Church invites us to first read and reflect on a passage from the book of Revelation (22:1-9) entitled "The river of life-giving water". Our treasure, which follows, is from a sermon by Blessed Issac of Stella, abbot.
Blessed Isaac of Stella, born around 1100 A.D., was a monk, theologian, and philosopher. Blessed Isaac entered the Cistercian Monastery of Citeaux, near Dijon, France, in the early years of the Cistercian order. A contemporary of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Isaac became abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Stella where he was renowned for…
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