[Sca-cooks] RE: Handling special diet needs at feasts

[Ted Eisenstein]

>I caught part of a Ramadan sermon on our local community cable
>station.  The cleric was saying that when Ramadan falls in the
>winter, these are known as the "mercy months".  Someone I know
>on another list was an adult convert to Islam.  She said she was
>*very* glad that her first Ramadan was in midwinter.

. . . canonical hours. . .
Since some of the services monks had to sing came during evening
(Vespers), early morning (Prime), and somewhere in between (the
one I can't remember the name of), they got more sleep in winter
than they did in the summer.

(And I'll take corrections on the hours; I just went through them last
week, and damned if my memory's not a sieve today.)

Alban