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Lastly, also, on those days,--i.e., on Saturday and Sunday,--and on
holy days, on which it is usual for both dinner and supper to be provided
for the brethren, a Psalm is not said in the evening, either when they come
to supper or when they rise from it, as is usual at their ordinary
dinner and the canonical refreshment on fast days, which the customary
Psalms usually precede and follow. But they simply make a plain prayer and
come to supper, and again, when they rise from it, conclude with prayer
alone; because this repast is something special among the monks: nor are
they all obliged to come to it, but it is only for strangers who have come
to see the brethren, and those whom bodily weakness or their own
inclination invites to it.
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