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Samsonite's avatar

📜Benedictine monks’ hospitality unspoken rule: good food with bad people 📜

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Gregory B. Sadler's avatar

Plenty of good people both in an visiting Benedictine monastaries and convents

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David Cox's avatar

That was interesting. I had never read anything by him. Thank you for the introduction.

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Gregory B. Sadler's avatar

You’re welcome! He’s certainly someone well worth reaching. The Dicta Anselmi, unfortunately, isn’t at this point translated and published yet.

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David Hildner's avatar

Thanks for posting this text, Greg. It looks to me like the oldest instance I've ever seen of the advice: "Fake it til you make it."

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Gregory B. Sadler's avatar

Well, that ides, though not the actual phrase, are kind of a commonplace in ancient virtue ethics

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