The Portiuncula Franciscan Hermitage and Retreat Center
located in Jerusalem, Ohio
Not more than three or at most four friars should go together to a hermitage to lead a religious life there. Two of these should act as mothers, with the other two, or the other one, as their children. The mothers are to lead the life of Martha; the other two, the life of Mary Magdalene.
(The life of Mary is symbolic of the contemplative life; that of Martha of the active life.)
Saint Francis of Assisi
Religious Life In Hermitages
T
No comments:
Post a Comment