Greetings,
Ordinary time has begun, and here at the monastery it is just where Saint Benedict would want us to be! Much of his Rule focused not on the big celebrations or major feasts, but how to live the ordinary, the daily. The Rule is filled with the structure of how prayer should be said, how meals should be served and by whom, the order of work and prayer in the day, what might be the best authors to read, and even a reminder not to sleep with your knife (every day utensil) at night. The ordinary is where the life of the monastic is formed.
We invite you to share in this ordinary by trying to identify some of the items we use fairly often, if not daily, around the monastery. These two close up shots are from the same machine that has been used in the monastery for at least three generations (I've been corrected, this has been used for closer to FIVE generations of sisters)! It is used at least a few times a week, every week by our sisters, and is loved by many more. What do you think it might be? Guesses are welcome in the 'comments'!
Ordinary time has begun, and here at the monastery it is just where Saint Benedict would want us to be! Much of his Rule focused not on the big celebrations or major feasts, but how to live the ordinary, the daily. The Rule is filled with the structure of how prayer should be said, how meals should be served and by whom, the order of work and prayer in the day, what might be the best authors to read, and even a reminder not to sleep with your knife (every day utensil) at night. The ordinary is where the life of the monastic is formed.
We invite you to share in this ordinary by trying to identify some of the items we use fairly often, if not daily, around the monastery. These two close up shots are from the same machine that has been used in the monastery for at least three generations (I've been corrected, this has been used for closer to FIVE generations of sisters)! It is used at least a few times a week, every week by our sisters, and is loved by many more. What do you think it might be? Guesses are welcome in the 'comments'!
Blessings and Good Luck Guessing!
PS...Retreatants and Discerners who have visited with us
should give others the first guess ; )
2 comments:
A mangle iron. Or an old printer??
Teresa, Under Monastery Mystery Revealed, we announced the mystery item as a 'loafer'. It kneads, flatens, and rolls 2 pound lumps of dough is almost perfect loaves for our 5 tray, rotating oven! While no one I questioned was quite sure of the age, it has been a fixture of the bakery for many generations of sisters and we are pretty certain our monastery bakery wouldn't run near as well without it!
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