that’s annoyed.’ ‘You’re subsuming your ego?’ ‘That’s right, yes,’ he said. ‘Then of course there’s a whole disciplinary thing. The Rule sets out what you do for certain misdemeanours during worship and that’s carried on today in most monasteries. It’s a structure of asking you to humiliate yourself, as it were, to acknowledge that you were a wrongdoer. If you make a mistake, you have to kneel down. You’re apologizing to the Lord but you’re also acknowledging your neighbour, who you’ve irritated.
