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| Chapter XVIII. How it is against the rule for any one to take anything to eat or drink except at the common table.
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Chapter XVIII.
How it is against the rule for any one to take anything
to eat or drink except at the common table.
In between their regular
meals in common they are especially careful that no one should presume
to gratify his palate with any food:775
| 775 Similarly we find in
the Rule of Pachomius that no one is allowed to keep any food in his
cell besides what he receives from the steward (c. lxxix.): and the
Benedictine Rule also says: “Let no one presume to take any food
or drink out of the regular hours of meals” (c. xliii). Cf. also
the Rule of Pachomius cc. lxxv. and lxxviii., S. Basil’s longer
Monastic Rules Q. xv., ῞Αψατο
βρωμάτων
παρὰ
καιρόν;
ἐπὶ πλεῖστον
τῆς ἡμέρας
ἀπόσιτος
ἔστω, the Rule of Aurelian (c. lii.), that
of Isidore (c. xiii.), etc. | so that when
they are walking casually through gardens or orchards, when the fruit
hanging enticingly on the trees not only knocks against their breasts
as they pass through, but is also lying on the ground and offering
itself to be trampled under foot, and (as it is all ready to be
gathered) would easily be able to entice those who see it to gratify
their appetite, and by the chance offered to them and the quantity of
the fruit, to excite even the most severe and abstemious to long for
it; still they consider it wrong not merely to taste a single fruit,
but even to touch one with the hand, except what is put on the table
openly for the common meal of all, and supplied publicly by the
steward’s catering through the service of the brethren, for their
enjoyment.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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