Monastery Reflections from last April
It's hard not to get the giggles in services sometimes. Examples:
- when the we pray to the "Adorable Holy Spirit." I know we're using the ancient sense of adorable. But... the image is stuck. I'm trapped with a cozy, cutesy third person of the Trinity.
- the old monk struggles with his hearing aid and everyone just plunges on through the Eucharist with abandon - "tick tick tick tick!" - his hand wiggling in his ear, it's whining and ticking at intervals, and Brother P. is rolling his great and mighty voice onward.
- Easter week we're inundated with guests unused to our diet at the monastery, and chapel is interrupted, intermittently, by airplanes overhead and the guest's stomachs growling. Loudly.
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