It is very interesting that in this paragraph, the word "change" and "kitchen" appear. Is this a veiled reference ( a la Da Vinci Code) to a conspiracy by the monks to cause division in the church by changing the authority over the church's kitchen? Can you read into this text that the rulers of the kitchen became the rulers of the church? ;-) (Please read this with an unveiled attempt at humor!)
AELW 5:342
"But God’s care and concern for us does not appear to be so great. Therefore one must learn, and accustom oneself to, that changing and alteration of things and men in the world. The heathen have learned in one way or another by experience that a servant is the master in the house and that the master is a servant. Indeed, the monks made the same complaint about their servants. For they had brothers whom they called lay brothers. To them the kitchen and domestic works were entrusted. But these also ruled over the others..."
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