[[ Hi Sister, you said Fr Wencel wrote that the hermit was not "to cherish the spirit of separation", but a hermit is supposed to embrace stricter separation from the world, right? What is the difference Fr Wencel is trying to emphasize here? Aren't hermits supposed to love what they do?]]Good question and on a great line from Camaldolese Father Cornelius Wencel!! I think this l...

This particular story was comprehensive and very well done (despite some limited use of AI). Pope Leo is the mediator of Jesus speaking truth to power just as Jesus did, and doing so during Holy Week and beyond it. With Donald Trump, we can hear the living embodiment of Pilate's question, "What is truth?" With Pope Leo XIV, we can hear Jesus' response, as, in silence, he says es...

Dear Friends of Stillsong Hermitage,I wanted to invite you to share in an event that is taking place tomorrow evening in Rome, and wherever we each are in this world that so desperately cries out for peace at this particular time. Pope Leo XIV has called the whole world to join him in a Prayer Vigil for Peace, Saturday, April 11, at 6:00 p.m. Rome time (9:00 a.m. Pacific/noon Ea...

 You know, I am not a particularly political person. At the same time, I am a prayerful person whose "job" it is to stand in the place where the cries and yearning of humanity meet the love and endless mercy of God in Christ. I recognize that the longer I live in this "place" and the larger my heart becomes (because both my experience of God's love and mercy, and the profou...

Christ is Risen, Alleluia, Alleluia!!! All good wishes for a wonderful Easter Season!!For the next 50 days, we have time to attend to what Jesus' death and resurrection changed. In light of these events we live in a different world than existed before they occurred, and we ourselves, by virtue of our Baptism into Christ's death, are new creations as well. We have been embraced b...