HERMIT ON THE HILL A
Trappistine convent asked a hermit of another monastic community to be their chaplain. Through a process of discernment, the monastic community concluded that he should not go. “We need our hermit on the hill — joyously in love with God for its own sake. Otherwise we will forget why we are to do what we are doing.” Each of us needs a hermit on the hill, and the church itself is called to be the hermit for the world. Somewhere, somehow, someone must be joyously in love with God for its own sake — without fear, without need of reward, without anything other than the sheer joy of growing old loving one’s God. From Weavings, November & December of 1993, pg. 44
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