ack in the days when I was religious, I spent a summer at a monastery, where they had an old cat.
Gag order
In the monastery, they had regular prayers at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Coincidentally, the cat would start acting weird about 2:59 and would start to howl. Naturally, his howling would disrupt prayers so after a few days of that, the head monk — let's call him Thelonius — would ask one of the junior monks to go tie up and gag the cat so they could have some peace and quiet for prayers.
That went on for years at this monastery. It got to the point where one monk was designated as the Gag Monk, whose job it was to locate and gag the cat just before afternoon prayers. It became a very prestigious position since prayers could not take place before the Gag Monk had done his daily chore of taking care of the cat.
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