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Updated: May 12, 2025
What if she should now be converted through him? Was it perhaps right that he should try? Was Benedetto's impulse really more Christian than his own fears and the Abbot's scruples? As he crossed the church with bowed head, Don Clemente's mind was struggling with these questions. Anatolia and Audax!
And besides," he added, smiling, "after all the habit would have been missing." A slight movement of Don Clemente's lips revealed to him that he had brought the habit with him from Subiaco. Benedetto experienced a great wave of intense inward emotion.
Then raising his great shining eyes to Don Clemente's face, he said, "Hora ruit." And he resumed: "Let each one perform his religious duties as the Church prescribes, according to strict justice and with perfect obedience. Do not give your union a name, or speak collectively, or draw up rules, beyond those I have dictated! Love one another, love is enough. Communicate with one another.
"What I have said and, above all, what I am going to say, was born of you." He stretched out his hand, and taking Don Clemente's hand, he added: "The Father knows it. Each should feel God's presence within himself, but each should feel it also in the other, and I feel it so strongly in you.
Don Clemente's whole face flushed as he spoke thus, in low tones. Benedetto bowed his head, and Don Clemente laid his hands upon it with gentle dignity. "Do you desire to surrender your whole being to Supreme Truth, to His Church, visible and invisible?" said the low, manly voice. As though he had expected both the action and the question, Benedetto answered at once, and in a firm voice: "Yes."
Selva proposed that the monk be heard first. All eyes were fixed on that noble face, the face of an archangel: Don Clemente's colour deepened, but he held his head erect. After a moment of hesitation he spoke in his soft, modest voice. "The Abbé Marinier made an observation which seemed to me very just. He said that we need a saint.
True, but the Abbot had said never to return, Don Clemente's eyes were full of tears, but he still smiled. "You are glad?" said Benedetto, almost plaintively, Oh, glad! How could the master explain what he felt?
On another occasion Giovanni propounded a question to him which he had already discussed with Noemi; whether, on leaving this world, human souls at once acquire knowledge of their future destiny, Don Clemente's answer had been, that after death At this point in Noemi's narrative, Carlino inquired whether he should set up three tents that they might pass the night on the spot?
Benedetto fixed his gaze upon him, questioning him without words: "Why this visit?" Don Clemente's eyes were veiled in silence, and the disciple humbled himself in a mute but visible impulse of obedience. "At once?" he inquired. "At once." "May I first go and wash in the torrent?" The master smiled: "Go, wash in the torrent."
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