doing errands for the community

They say that in a monastery, anything that a monk can offer to his community from big to small offerings of oneself, of his time, of his actions and of his efforts as well as doing small to big errands are a sure way of offering himself to God and by doing such, a noble sacrifice is offered for the greater glory of God.

Yesterday, I was off the whole day and did grocery shopping with another Filipino monk, Dom Marcus, OSB for the community's week-long consumtpion. Dom Anton (Vietnamese juniormonk) went with us as he did buy his personal needs and intentions! (we call it that way when a monk asks permission from our superior for his personal stuffs, that is, clothing...shoes... toiletries, etc.)

In coming back to the monastery, We could not imagine how huge the bulk of groceries we put in our truck from Sta Fe's Sam's Club and Espanyola's Wal-Mart.

Anyways, We arrived back at the monastery in the evening. And as soon as we parked our truck in front of the kitchen's pantry, we immediately unloaded the grocery stuffs as silently as we could and after we put in the last item inside the pantry, we parted ways and sneaked silently to our respective cells and called it the longest day.