On 23 June we had our coetus , the fourth declension Latin word meaning meeting. It is called this because it brings together a committee of monks in front of which each petitioner is formal and regular application for admission to the novitiate. There
the prior of the convent, the promoter of vocations, the master of postulants, the novice master and teacher of students, all sitting around a table and with all notebooks for notes and drawings and origami. At the center of the table is in an urn and the urn are black and white balls, where the white vote in favor to the candidate and the black qiello negative. On top of the table is an empty chair.
It 's a step - the first and most important - in the career of a monk, because from there you start to get serious. It 'important because each religious vocation is not a private matter to administer in secret chambers of the heart, but it is a community act. Not enough that the petitioner himself recognizes in the vocation to live in a particular religious order and under certain rules. We must also recognize that the brothers in order that he call and confirm.
That tells the story of young monks who are now bold and assertive and daring, trembling in front of the coetus remain speechless and with a dry throat and intestines Twisted, sleepless nights and maybe pass out on the most beautiful. Still, the coetus is absolutely liberating. Frees you from loneliness and responsibility to decide in full autonomy of your vocation. E if one day, maybe, I'll be assailed by doubts and think that my vocation was a big hallucination or a cruel illusion, here, then I'll have to remember this coetus and the novitiate for the profession and the solemn and I can not think that it was not fancy, but the facts that transpired from my words and my actions.
And then, what could possibly go wrong? I should thank me when you say yes, but much more should thank me if I had said no, because I would have saved a mistake, saving a precious year of life and otherwise wasted and sent on a path that is in my legs. The coetus is a word influential on the life of each petitioner.
Perhaps for this reason, shaking the legs white covers them under the table, notebooks and urn with balls.
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