Born in
Ravenna, Italy in the mid-tenth century, Saint Romuald was a mystic who
led an eremitical life. Saint
Peter Damian composed the Romuald’s biography and tells us:
Frequently
he was seized by so great a contemplation of divinity that he would be reduced
to tears with the boiling, indescribable heat of divine love. In this condition
he would cry out: “Beloved Jesus, beloved, sweet honey, indescribable longing,
delight of the saints, sweetness of the angels, and other things of this kind.
We are unable to express the ecstasy of these utterances, dictated by the Holy
Spirit.”
We are inspired by the great
ardor of Saint Romuald and long to be filled the grace of the Holy Spirit that
so fired his heart.
