Common Hawthorn | The Hermit in a time of sheltering in place @CommonHawthorn | Uploaded March 2020 | Updated October 2024, 22 hours ago.
The word "hermit" goes back to a Greek word for "solitary" or "desert."
The "sayings of the desert fathers" [and mothers!] that I share during the video:
Abba Poemen said to Abba Joseph, ‘Tell me how to become a monk.’ He said, ‘If you want to find rest here below all circumstances say, ‘Who am I? and do not judge anyone.’
Abba Theophilus, the archbishop, came to Scetis one day. The brethren who were assembled said to Abba Pambo, ‘Say something to the archbishop, so that he may be edified.’ The old man said to them, ‘If he is not edified by my silence, he will not be edified by my speech.’
Abba Moses, "Sit in thy cell and thy cell will teach thee all."
Amma Syncletica said, "There are many who live in the mountains and behave as if they were in the town; they are wasting their time. It is possible to be a solitary in one's mind while living in a crowd; and it is possible for those who are solitaries to live in the crowd of their own thoughts."
Julian of Norwich (an anchorite who lived in the time of the Black Death, which killed somewhere between 30 and 60 percent of the European population) wrote "Revelations of Divine Love" based on visions she had when near death as a young woman.
"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well"
From the time these things were first revealed I had often wanted to know what was our Lord's meaning. It was more than fifteen years after that I was answered in my spirit's understanding. 'You would know our Lord's meaning in this thing? Know it well. Love was his meaning. Who showed it to you? Love. What did he show you? Love. Why did he show it? For love. Hold on to this and you will know and understand love more and more. But you will not know or learn anything else — ever.'
The word "hermit" goes back to a Greek word for "solitary" or "desert."
The "sayings of the desert fathers" [and mothers!] that I share during the video:
Abba Poemen said to Abba Joseph, ‘Tell me how to become a monk.’ He said, ‘If you want to find rest here below all circumstances say, ‘Who am I? and do not judge anyone.’
Abba Theophilus, the archbishop, came to Scetis one day. The brethren who were assembled said to Abba Pambo, ‘Say something to the archbishop, so that he may be edified.’ The old man said to them, ‘If he is not edified by my silence, he will not be edified by my speech.’
Abba Moses, "Sit in thy cell and thy cell will teach thee all."
Amma Syncletica said, "There are many who live in the mountains and behave as if they were in the town; they are wasting their time. It is possible to be a solitary in one's mind while living in a crowd; and it is possible for those who are solitaries to live in the crowd of their own thoughts."
Julian of Norwich (an anchorite who lived in the time of the Black Death, which killed somewhere between 30 and 60 percent of the European population) wrote "Revelations of Divine Love" based on visions she had when near death as a young woman.
"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well"
From the time these things were first revealed I had often wanted to know what was our Lord's meaning. It was more than fifteen years after that I was answered in my spirit's understanding. 'You would know our Lord's meaning in this thing? Know it well. Love was his meaning. Who showed it to you? Love. What did he show you? Love. Why did he show it? For love. Hold on to this and you will know and understand love more and more. But you will not know or learn anything else — ever.'
