St. Scholastica

[Shin]

Today being St. Scholastica's day, of course we all remember he last meeting with her brother St. Benedict.

Is that not a wonderful story?  Does everyone remember it?


'St. Scholastica said that if men knew the peace that good religious enjoy, the whole world would become a monastery; and St. Mary Magdalene of Pazzi said that all, if they knew it, would scale the walls of the monasteries, in order to get into them. The human heart having been created for an infinite good, all creatures cannot content it, they being finite, imperfect, and few; God alone, who is an infinite good, can render it content. Delight in the Lord and He will give thee the request of thy heart? Oh no; a good religious united with God envies none of the princes of the world who possess kingdoms, riches, and honors. "Let the rich," he will say with St. Paulinus, "have their riches, the kings have their kingdoms: to me Christ is my kingdom and my glory."'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[martin]

Ah yes.. I remember that one where St Benedict sees his sisters soul like a dove flying into heaven. 

St Scholastica snd benedict ora pro nobis.

[Brigid]

After she has prayed for a storm so that her brother couldn't leave her convent.

[Patricia]

I guess we could pray to her for good relationships between siblings.