Notesfromstillsong

[[Sister, are you aware that another hermit claims hermits never needed or wanted respect, so your argument that c 603 came about so the hermit vocation could be respected is invalid? What seems to be the point is that hermits are "the most humble of all vocations" and have never needed respect. Have you addressed this? Have you reversed your opinion?]]Thanks for writing. I am a...

Have you ever been walking along a well-known road and suddenly had a bed of flowers take on a vividness that takes your breath away? Similarly, have you ever been walking along or sitting quietly outside when a breeze rustles some leaves above your head, and you were struck by an image of the Spirit moving through the world? How about suddenly being struck by the tremendous com...

[[ Dear Sister, what can I say to a diocese that doesn't believe that chronic illness is acceptable if one proposes to live a solitary eremitical life? The Vicar I spoke to said he thought the life is too austere for me because of my illness. He described the rigors of the life from several hermits' accounts in the early Church, and when he asked if I could live this degree of a...

One of the things I did with my morning and early afternoon. Congratulations to all of the Jubilarians, but especially to Sisters Ann Marie Gelles and Aurora Perez. I am interested in learning later this month what the name of Annie's new Guide Dog will be since I didn't know this doesn't happen until the end of the training session!! Thanks too to Father Gerald Coleman for a re...

[[ Dear Sister, why would the desert or a desert spirituality be considered dangerous? Why would it be dangerous for someone without a Divine call to be a hermit to try to live as one? I've heard a few times that the hermit life is dangerous, but hermits today don't live in real deserts, do they? So what's the danger?]]I put up an older post before approaching this series of que...