The Joy of Consecrated Life revealed on the 14 February, the feast day of Saints Cyril and Methodius, patrons of Europe.
A short diary page. 14 February 2023 Pray for peace The Feast of Sts Cyril and Methodius Patrons of Europe. Sts Cyril and Methodius (9 th century) is the feastday today. I met in the aftenoon a young Czech Salesian novice who lived very close to the place in the Czech republic where Cyril and Methodius lived. In Eastern Europe they are venerated and known as we in England might know Thomas More and John Fisher (16 th Century) or much before that time St Cuthbert (7 th Century). Near to our Abbey at Ampleforth in the 12 th century lived St Aelred of Rievaulx. We know the places where these people lived, the landscape, and can intuit something about them from within. She could do the same as Cyril and Methodius lived down the road from where she was brought up. We had a day of praying for peace yesterday, done in a modern and yet traditional way, linking to the roots of the Christian life shared as consecrated religious linked with the other consecrated peopl...