Six Years in the Monasteries of Italy

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Lord Jesus Christ keep your soul for eternal life. Amen. The mass is, after this, finished, and the choir chant the psalm Ecce quam bonum, et quam Jucundum habitare, fratres, in unum?Behold what a pleasing, and virtuous thing it is, brothers, to live together;. whilst the newly vested novice is receiving...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Lord Jesus Christ keep your soul for eternal life. Amen. The mass is, after this, finished, and the choir chant the psalm Ecce quam bonum, et quam Jucundum habitare, fratres, in unum?Behold what a pleasing, and virtuous thing it is, brothers, to live together;. whilst the newly vested novice is receiving the kiss of peace from his future brethren, who say, whilst kissing him Pax tibi, frater charissime?Peace be with you, dearest brother. The day of giving the habit to a novice is observed by the monks as a day of feasting and rejoicing. A sumptuous dinner is prepared for the occasion, and the friends and benefactors of the convent are invited to partake of it. The monks exercise their talents for poetry by composing some pieces to be recited in the refectory during dinner, in praise of a monastic life, or in praise of the novice. Thus the day passes over amidst mirth and feasting, whilst the new-made monk retires to his room, fully content with his condition, and enthusiastic in his admiration of the manner of life he had that day chosen. Happy for him, if he continue so, or if he repent not before the expiration of a few months CHAPTER IV. Rule of St. Francis?Reasons for being unable to obtain a sight of it before receiving the habit ? Tradition attached to it?Francis' conversation with the miraculous crucifix?Pope Honorius?Ca- nonically elected popes?Infallibility?Lents?Wonderful change of flesh?meat into fish. Being now clad in the livery of St. Francis, a book containing the rules and constitutions of the order was placed at my disposal. Such a book I often before wished to see, and even begged a loan of it, more than once, from the superior; but my request, though not flatly refused, was always evaded. They never show?such is their policy?the rules of the or...