Sanctification: A Comedy of Error
April 3rd, 2007 by Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P.
an Article by Br. Bruno M. Shah, O.P.
I. Playing A Part
During the first days at the seminary, the Master of Students gathers the newly arrived to discover what practical talents are available for the community’s benefit. (We blithely refer to the house’s chores as “privileges.”) Each of our sixty men has some share in the work of home–maintenance–this brother is handy with electrical equipment, that brother has a background in carpentry, this brother is literate in computers, et cetera. Well, this brother claimed that he could cut hair. And for an order that vows evangelical poverty, getting haircuts for free is what philosophers call a “useful good.”
