A newly assigned Benedictine priest asked my help today with some bills, just to make sure the amounts paid matched the amounts due. Apparently "back home" in the monastery such things were handled by a central office, which until recently would have been staffed by monks. I've never considered it, but it makes sense that such things are most efficiently handled in one office, or in a community house, by one person or group. I thought for a moment of one person handling the individual bills for a community of religious, giving each monk an extra hour or more a month to spend in prayer or work.
"So, I suppose in that case managing the expenses and paying the bills is a ministry of sorts?"
"Absolutely," Father confirmed.
It's nice to know that even the mundane work I do is in some way supporting a more glamorous vocation.
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