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To: Salvation

I had seen it, but I think I thought it meant the same as “hermit.”


2 posted on 08/02/2014 9:03:52 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Tax-chick; Salvation
"I had seen it, but I think I thought it meant the same as “hermit.”

Generally speaking, Cenobitc monks are communal and eremitic monasticism pertains to the solitary lifestyle. In the Orthodox tradition there are also the levritic and skete practices which are something of a combination of the two....

6 posted on 08/02/2014 9:13:47 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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