The Brother and the Rooster
Day, Dorothy
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By DOROTHY DAY
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used to new ways, the new rule, of the...
...He was alone in the world, very much alone on his...
...world and very sad...
...transferred to the kitchen to work as cook with the...
...from the icy bedrooms and the cold chapel...
...days made the stove a torture rather than a comfort...
...good to sit in peace and calm and cool off a bit, and...
...After breakfast there...
...sweet tune...
...tired at the end of the day...
...Every morning when he...
...Stanislaus had among his charges and that was a young...
...God has given us a very fine morning," Brother...
...ing turned to anger and the anger turned to remorse...
...When he cooked he cooked with...
...By noon, Brother Stanislaus had scorched the beans...
...of reading, which was but a venial sin, since it was...
...grievous irritation against life and Brother Gerard...
...since Brother Gerard was busily engaged while he...
...to him, crowing in a friendly manner, strutting before...
...made the air ring with their hot tunings, he took his...
...completed the rosary for the day...
...When it was a struggle...
...leaves...
...is very good...
...beautiful, but he accepted his unhappiness and lack of...
...He is as bad as Brother...
...and down the kitchen meditating on the Visitation, or...
...time for the half-hour of meditation...
...bibliophile handles a precious volume...
...breakfast, another visit to throw the chickens their...
...brother the rooster did not answer him...
...get up and go back to his pots and pans in the kitchen...
...he would have there...
...During the course of the morning he ran out...
...and hostile to Brother Stanislaus...
...This was a time of hardship for him...
...shoulder when he called...
...was rung at nine-thirty...
...while he did so, to make the nauseous work easier...
...But Brother Stanislaus spoke such broken English...
...was an added hardship overcome for the love of God...
...journeyings...
...pare so many vegetables...
...The sunlight was...
...He...
...munion of saints, he did not realize that his little...
...was done, there was the work of canning them...
...Every minute of Brother Stanislaus's day was taken...
...tables...
...the house, but always Brother Gerard was somewhere...
...was never finished...
...heavy cassock which he put on just before he left the...
...Teresa, it's a wretched inn, I'll agree with you—but...
...Sitting down heavily on the stump of the old tree...
...tention, he scarcely listened...
...them, and he prayed for a heart of flesh to take the...
...was gone...
...I'll be very happy...
...and converse about...
...Now if He will only send us a good shower this after...
...cans in the pantry...
...facing east and no direct draught through...
...over the stove and by seven the oatmeal was done to...
...It seemed to him a mournful...
...Recreation fol...
...was a comfortable place—and because canned goods...
...After dinner there were the Sorrowful Mysteries to...
...stead of in purgatory...
...dinner, he resolved to be present in the barnyard and...
...to sweep and mop and the shelves and drawers to clean...
...It was impossible for him to get up earlier than...
...brother whom he had been hating so fiercely...
...Brother Gerard was a younger man than Brother...
...used to new ways, the new rule, of the religious...
...He was glad to suffer, happy...
...not hard to wash...
...There was barely time in...
...uncertainty, and since the rule of silence was observed...
...cal half-hour before dinner, the other brother caught...
...It is God's will," he kept murmuring, and finally...
...There was always time, too, for visits with his little...
...When he was very lonely he tried to dwell on...
...cows, the chickens and the garden...
...time, Brother Stanislaus sat on an old stump under a...
...God alone knows what a lonely old man I am...
...with each other in making up spiritual bouquets to give...
...There were twenty-five novices, five lay brothers and...
...and Brother Gerard wanted to get it done before din...
...The long afternoon was spent in the...
...Mysteries, then there were the other cows to milk and...
...Good Saint Joseph, don't let my oatmeal burn...
...to know him and used to come and perch on his...
...Life is but a night spent in a wretched inn,' " he...
...ferred...
...They delighted when the work...
...spent long hours on their knees, even when their souls...
...The sing...
...My arms ache from carrying...
...So he had to take to...
...came and perched on his knee, he talked to it as a little...
...and when one morning Brother Stanislaus heard one...
...twined about his legs and impeded his hurried step...
...to during the rest of the day...
...There was always plenty to do...
...and vegetables...
...as well as he spoke French or Italian, though never...
...503...
...Every morning he arose at five and went to the...
...For the first five years Brother...
...He was a hard...
...He said...
...time to milk one of the cows...
...His hands trembled as he took out his old...
...weeding the garden...
...Be sure and let me know when...
...he exulted in...
...were fifteen minutes for thanksgiving and half an hour...
...make friends with the other lay brothers who were...
...When the work was heavier than usual the fathers...
...would shun anyone who was given to this devotion...
...There was never enough rain...
...boyhood friend of his in the religious house in France...
...He...
...The cicadas, the bees, the buzzing flies...
...Saint Clare, Saint Anthony and Brother Juniper...
...cise...
...So while Brother Stan...
...had to start breakfast...
...cheerfully, smiling at the thought that by his present...
...There was time for Mass and spiritual...
...water the garden...
...There was food to be prepared and...
...panted as he hurried along...
...The big range heated up the room and...
...He could...
...tables and the cleaning off of closet shelves...
...of-doors and his animals...
...And the rooster crowed lustily as though to say...
...recreation...
...His little pet, his tender joyous little rooster, who...
...Be careful of my little friend out there," he called...
...each other books—they read nothing but devotional...
...flower gardens until twelve, when there was another...
...cut grass which cluttered the narrow path, so that he...
...words came from their hearts...
...made himself felt to the old lay brother, and his heart...
...Mary a respite from her humble work, and when he...
...under the trees in order that he might the better hear...
...Immediately after, ignoring the bell for prayers in...
...Their hot...
...toes and the noisy crackling of the roast in the oven...
...himself over the dish pan...
...There were five cows, two horses...
...The fresh...
...on the stove for a fricassee, he said to him, "You are...
...in the kitchen...
...house cleaning...
...and chocolate...
...Song sparrows were singing in the trees overhead and...
...The huge pot of oatmeal...
...work seem interminable, and when the work of prepar...
...even in the sound of the buzzing flies...
...Brother Stanislaus wept...
Vol. 10 • September 1929 • No. 20
