DECEMBER 23 SAN SERVOLO THE PARALYTIC. Today's prayer

Servolo was born into a very poor family, and struck by paralysis as a child, asked for alms at the door of the Church of San Clemente in Rome; and with such humility and grace he asked for it, that everyone loved him and gave it away. Fallen sick, everyone rushed to visit him, and such were the expressions and sentences that came out of his lip, that everyone left consoled. Being agonizing, he suddenly shook himself exclaimed: “Hear! oh what harmony! are the angelic choirs! ah! I see them the Angels! " and expired. It was the year 590.

PRAYER

For that exemplary patience you always kept and in poverty and distress and infirmity, imply to us, O Blessed Servolo, the virtue of resignation to the divine wills so that we never have to complain about everything that could happen to us left