Cats

An (almost) polar opposite to the previous :kitty:!

Eugene (an abbreviation of his human name) is a Selkirk Rex :kitty:, and the groomer fell in 😻 with him!

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This was posted on my LiveJournal feed (mini-NaNoWriMo promp for today.) Thought I'd share the crewmate's photo:
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Nutella, the snaggletooth :kitty:'s in da House (along with da Canadian groomer!)

The groomer has a new tchotchki: a special dryer that fits most :kitty:s and small breed doggos.

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Like all Benedictines, Cistercians do not take a 'Vow of Silence', they have a 'Rule.'

Here's a joke I heard when with the Cistercians at Mount St Bernard Abbey, in Leicestershire:

Every Easter, our Novice Master permits one of his charges to say a few words about life in the Community.

1st Year - Brother Matthew: I love it here, Father. The spirituality, the joy, the love of God. It's beautiful. And as for the food....wonderful! Easily the very best I have ever tasted.'

2nd year - Brother Mark: 'I agree with Brother Matthew about community life. But I have to say that he is talking rubbish about the food. It's terrible, disgusting, the very worst I have ever had the misfortune to endure.'

3rd year - Brother Luke: 'Yes, community life is grand on the whole. But I'm bound to say that the one thing that really gets me down is this CONSTANT bickering over food!'

I tested a vocation at the Abbey, but decided, eventually, that my calling was to be a husband and dad.

The Novice Master took my decision kindly, saying: 'Our Novitiate is a seedbed of good Catholic marriages!'
 
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I reckon that was inspired by the documentary Into Great Silence, a documentary portrayal of Carthusian life at the Grande Chartreuse, a monastery high in the French Alps.

There's a wonderful scene where an ancient monk is in (as I recall) the attics, feeding the cats who control pests in the monastery – he's chatting away! It's so warm and funny ...


The director Philip Gröning proposed the idea to the monks in 1984. The Carthusians said they wanted time to think about it.

The answer came 16 years later...

Perhaps that was after a length discussion when the abbot sought the opinion of the brothers, allowing one brother one comment every Easter?

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(Philip Gröning lived at the monastery, enclosed there, for six months in 2002/2003. He filmed and recorded on his own, using no artificial light.)
 
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