Could there be a dark side to this life of isolation and devotion of St. BenedictCould there be a dark side to this life of isolation and devotion of St. Benedict?
Isolation of St. Benedict? If we are speaking about the same St. Benedict of Nursia then his life is not one of isolation but one of community. He wrote the most widley used rule for cenobitic monasteries which is by definition a community of monks under a rule and an abbot. Sure there will be dark times and dry times, but the only isolation in a monastery is the self-created one. Not everyone is called to live the religious life and so those that are not called and try it might find it to be a life of isolation. I must say, though, that many monks and nuns love their communities.
It is the eremitic life that is the life of isolation.Could there be a dark side to this life of isolation and devotion of St. Benedict?
life of isolation, is no dark side, but being a religious ignorant is not only dark but also a blank side to this life!!!
Of course there could be. Many so called devout Saints were kind of strange, St Anthony spent most of his life on one leg. Their penances were often extreme to say the least and often consisted of self flaggelation and extended fasts.
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