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suiers •pUons 4418 be... r... elors )U to your let vel tnrattont Uu«! E ICE ites 3d 134 K^„ v*. ilSS J&i iLA! Jeff Goulding/Couriw-Joomal faster refiectioifs: & loifg day's jounjcy iifte iqoqastic life By Emily Morrison i list before the crack of dawn, Father Placid Cor- mey walks with measured footsteps into the crypt ofjOur Lady Queen of Peace Chapel, leaning heav- ily on his cane. At 4:45 in the morning, few of us seriously consider stirring from bed — I speculate as I sit sleepily with head bowed, listening to his difficult gait — with the nota- ble exception o^ farmers, insomniacs and monks. The occasion is Thursday morning Vigils at Mt. Saviour Monastery, three \days before Palm Sunday. Father Placid, one of the community's founding members, has made the daily trek this morning, despite a painful leg injury acquired during a fall. Now 83, he's risen before daybreak nearly ev- ery morning during the half-century he's spent as a professed Benedictine monk. A handful of venturesome guests sits quietly along the back wall of the small chamber at the rear of the crypt, watching the monks file past the shrine of Our Lady tp begin their day. ' Continned on Page 10 warnim MM