If there is one thing we religious - among the many! - have really no experience of, then that is hunger! The occasional times we are late for meals or carry out fasts during retreats or days of Lent, hardly qualify to be termed hunger. Real hunger is the physical feeling coupled with the awareness that I do not have and will get no food to eat! Among the many privileges our profession and ordination offers us is this guarantee of food, irrespective of whether we have worked for it or not.
There's many a one who would be idle if hunger didn't pinch him; but the stomach sets us to work. [George Eliot, author Felix Holt (1866)]
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