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Cap. Gen. 71. Ap. Nomasticon. 126 ST. STEPHEN, ABBOT. [CH. syllable, and sucked in the honied sense of the Psalms as they pronounced the words. It is not wonderful if the men of that time believed that devils trembled, and angels noted down in letters of gold^ the words which dropped from their lips, as these grave and masculine voices chanted through the darkness of the night the triumph of good over evil, and the glories of the Lord and of His Church. Few, indeed, are worthy to chant the Psal...ms: who can repeat, for instance, the 119th Psalm as he should] But Stephen and his brethren might pronounce those burning words of the Spirit without shame, for they had indeed given up the world. " Ignitum eloquium tuum vehementer, et servus dilexit illud. " After matins were over they never returned to sleep, but were permitted either to pray in the church, or to sit in the cloister. In summer, when the day dawned upon the convent almost as soon as matins were over, the time thus allowed was very short, for lauds followed close on the first glimmer of morning light.
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