THE KIND OF LIFE OF THE HERMITS

My Sons, and Brothers, our Kind of life as a Carmelite is entirely contemplative, our days are composed exclusively  of prayer psalmody, spiritual reading, vigils and work, with the minimum of rest and nourishment necessary for life."

We live in "Perpetual silence which can only be interrupted by the necessary relationship with the Superior, and the conference or spiritual discussion which takes place every two weeks, presided over by the superior.

Therefore brothers it is necessary that outside the choir and the refectory, the retirement in the cell is continues. In addition, during advent and at least on the days preceding Pentecost, in this moment some of us monks  go out to live in different hermitages scattered within the walls of the monastery, in order that being in deeper solitude and living as perfect anchorites, they alone may give themselves completely to God alone. Being united in the community only by the sound of the bell which crowns the Sanctuary of their contemplative solitude.