Dear [One] in Christ

The words I write to you today are but a stepping stone. A humble invitation to hear the call of the ONE who knocks at the door of our hearts and calls us to follow His footsteps out into the desert.

From the beginning of Christian Monasticism there have been such souls: From those who walked out into the desert, to the Anchor holds in the city, to the Charter House, to Camaldoli.

And this vocation [following Him] is still alive today in the changing times of a modern world.

One sentence above all seems to have come down through the centuries from the first desert dwellers… [a sentence] from which every other word they spoke seemed to flow.

Once a Father was asked to speak a word, a message from God. He replied in a simple sentence:

“Sit in your cell and your cell will teach you everything.”

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