Prayer to Mary
Mary, tenderly place me near the Heart of your son, Christ Jesus. Help me hear His words of love whispered for my heart alone. Teach me to thirst for His words and to hunger for His Food and Drink joining my brothers and sisters around the altar of His Love. Mary, ask Jesus to increase my longing to be satisfied in Him alone. Amen.
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Eremitic Life
Canon 603
§1. Besides institutes of consecrated life, the Church recognizes the eremitic or anchoritic life by which the Christian faithful devote their life to the praise of God and salvation of the world through a stricter separation from the world, the silence of solitude and assiduous prayer and penance.
§2. A hermit is recognized in the law as one dedicated to God in a consecrated life if he or she publicly professes the three evangelical counsels, confirmed by a vow or other sacred bond, in the hands of the diocesan bishop and observes his or her own plan of life under his direction.
There are numerous books and articles describing the eremitic life. Below, please find a short list. Desert dwellers reach back to the 3rd century, on through the middle ages, and up to the present century where both men and women continue to follow Christ along a desert path.
Today, individuals called to this ancient form of consecrated life are scattered about our globe. Each lives according to their own Rule approved by their bishop.
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Articles
Fairhurst, Richard
What Are Anchorites?
Stern, Christina
Sealed in, yet Soaring: Anchoresses in the Middle Ages