in silence“Certainly not, Brother.”
“But the oath of silence does not apply to those places, so we are breaking no rules. Is everything clear to you so far?”
“No, actually…there is one thing…”
“What is that?”
“You tell me that the Order’s profit from the market is received by the Abbot. That cannot be right. The poor people of Calatrava are not concerned with maintaining the castle when they do not have the wherewithal to put food on their tables. We should give away what we do not need, so the Abbot would do well to read Isiah 55:1:
we ‘Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters. And you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk. Without money and without cost.’
‘Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters. And you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Come, b
