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This Guide Book for Eremitical Life is written after seven years companioning persons who were seeking God in the depths of th souls through a life of eremitic prayer, penance and solitude. particular, I am grateful to Margarette, Agnes, and Mary who enriched my knowledge of eremitic life through their personal
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from A Handbook on Canons 573-746 edited by Jordan Hite TOR, Sharon Holland IHM, and Daniel Ward Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1985, p. 55.
along with the 1. Besides envision a mon or anchoritic community in of God and his rule but pe world, the sile spiritual life.
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2. The diocesan bishop and/or his delegate for consecrated life will with the individual if a vocation to eremitic life is an authentic vocation
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