Dear Brothers,
Blessings to you! We have to find a way to get the rice prepared the night before. Beginning the rice after Vigils simply will not work.
The point of doing the jobs that you are assigned to is to serve the community, not just to get a work done. When there is no rice prepared in the morning, this is a dis-service to the community.
Brother Cecilien and Brother Lawrence, I am not blaming either one of you, but I am saying that we must find a way.
If there is no rice outside of the locked pantry at night, then you, Brother Cecilien, need to phone Brother Lawrence, who is usually in his room, and he MUST come to the kitchen and get some rice. If that is not possible, then you must catch Brother Lawrence at Vigils and he himself must go out after the Hymn and prepare the rice. Let us try this for a while and see if it works.
Always I am grateful for the work that each of you do. But as I mentioned above, preparing breakfast or managing the kitchen is a service to the community--and the abbot has to insist that the service be done in a way that benefits the community.
Be assured of my prayers for both of you.
Your brother in the Lord,
Abbot Philip
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I am wordless and a bit anxious ( *&^%$#*&^%^&*) about this email..... this incident is the second mishap--the first time was with father Mayeul, who was still the one assigned to do the breakfast setup- and he phoned the Abbot early early morning before the first prayers instead of calling me up directly.... this second incident is worse as Brother Cecilien (from Madagascar) did not phone the Abbot nor me, instead, he did not do anything to inform me about the rice bucket being empty ( we have tons of rice inside the locked panty , and he could have notified me the night before as I was at the kitchen then mopping the kitchen floor as the assigned kitchen cleaner for the week....hhhhhhmmm, I can only do so much for my community. hhhhmmmmm.)
1 comment:
hay naku ganyan talaga ang buhay minsan kahit cnisikap mo na maging smooth ang lahat ...ang ibang tao naman minsan ang nagiging dahilan para magkaron ng aberya...hmmmm ano nga ba maipapayo ko sayo kundi habaan ang pasencya....tutal ndi naman nakakasindak manita ang abbot...pakikurot ako kay bro.cecilien
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