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[quote name='Thomist-in-Training' post='1726622' date='Dec 12 2008, 01:50 PM']There's a book from the fifties called "My Beloved" by a Carmelite nun, sort of the same as "A Right to be Merry" but a little more personal and not as famous, and the author mentions matter-of-factly that the nuns take the discipline simultaneously in choir with the lights off (maybe once a week, or a few times a month). I was a little surprised to realize it was all together. I think that's when St Therese would have perhaps? as referred to in the quote from bio above. But anyways it's not "long outdated and discarded" and as mentioned various communities have the same practice today.[/quote]


I also remember reading a book about Padre Pio. The young monks would take the discipline in the same manner. Except, I think they were encouraged to do about as much violence to themselves as possible. The Capuchins he belonged to I believe did this everynight and then the monks were told that they must sleep on their stomachs.
I've also read that St. Thomas Moore wore a cilice ( a lay, married man to boot) and one day while in court it fell, I guess/assume, in which case he smiled because he felt it was a gift from God to be given a slightly larger penance.
God Bless

Edited December 13, 2008 by truthfinder