In the constitution of Our Holy Mother Sta. Teresa de Jesus de Avila given to the Discalced Carmelites is that " In the Monastery there shall be ground enough to build some hermitages so that the religious,a after the apostolic activity of Carmel as an Order, the Spirit of the Holy rule, which ought to animate the members was and continues to be eremitic with an essential interior hermitism.
Once the religious completes his apostolic activities he will retire to his hermitage cottage to be with God alone and this observance we call hermit day. He is to stay there fore three days with out disturbance and will only join the community prayer during matins, louds, complin, the rest of the liturgy of the hour he will say it alone in his hermitage.
The hermitage must have an altar, a comfort room, a turn where the food is placed from the outside for the brother to receive from the outside without exposing himself, a small garden. The Lay brother upon placing the food in the turn must knock three times to give signal to the religious in prayer that his food is ready. while observing hermit day, he can do what he pleases to do that does not endanger his contemplation, he can make rosaries and other arts that is in connection to prayer.
Brothers as long as we are in the state of meditation and prayer, let us remember that the Holy Rule of Carmel is called the rule of perfection which tends to form within us religious the creation of saint." The Carmelite Rule is not rich in concrete adherence to many circumstances of life but( except in few cases) it move in an atmosphere beyond the earth, the atmosphere of a world almost exclusively spiritual.
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