Today February 28

Today is the memorial of Saint Romanus, yet another of the beloved Desert Fathers. When Abba Romanus (abbots were called "Abba" in those days) was at the point of death, his disciples gathered round him and said, "How ought we to conduct ourselves?" The old man said to them, "I do not think I have ever told one of you to do something, without having first made the decision not to get angry, if what I said were not done; and so we have lived in peace all our days." That's all I have on St. Romanus! But it's enough, isn't it? He'd make a good psychologist, I think -- or even a Buddhist.