Vocations Related Gaffes......

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[quote name='Aya Sophia' timestamp='1315878697' post='2304027']
In Carmel, the oblong linen refectory napkin stretches out across the table in front of you and has all your tableware - bowls of food, utensils, "godet" of water, your coffee mug, etc. - laid out on top of it. One end if folded over a bit at the outer edge of the table, the other end you tuck in at the top of your scapular or, if you're a postulant, as I was, you pin to the front of your cape. Autumn was advancing and the days were getting shorter. Now it was dark outside by the time we were in the refectory for collation. Collation was in progress one evening when a Sister asked Our Mother's permission to close the shutters over the windows. My place at table was just in front of a window. When I heard the other shutters being closed I leaned toward our NM and asked should I close the one behind me. She nodded yes. In one deft movement I rose from my seat and swung around to the left, reaching both arms upward toward the shutters, neatly yanking the refectory napkin after me and flipping my bowl of food onto the floor! To cap it off, as the Sisters were trying to fatten me up, my supper that evening very specially included a nice fried egg with a runny yolk. (I really did intend to eat it - honest!) I glanced toward Sister Mistress and, dead pan though she was, I could see irrefutable evidence of a smile playing on her lips.


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I found myself thinking I can guarantee I will do something like this when I visited NH! We didn't use these at Q so there wasn't the same risk.