An inspiring story
The storm of Scholastica
Who wins, the rule or love?
Once a year Benedict met his twin sister Scholastica, also a nun, in a small house below Monte Cassino, to talk about God. At their last visit she begged him to stay the night and keep talking. He refused: a monk sleeps in his monastery. Scholastica folded her hands, laid her head on the table and prayed, and at once a storm broke out so wild that Benedict could not leave. 'What have you done?' 'I asked you and you would not listen. I asked God, and he did.' They talked until morning. Three days later she died.
Pope Gregory, who wrote down the story, explained it in one line: she could do more, because she loved more.
She could do more, because she loved more.Gregory the Great, Dialogues II.33