SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL

Despite all this, the SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL revised the 1917 Code of Canon Law and assessed and defended the RESURGENCE of eremitic life. As we have already said, this code had made DIOCESAN EREMITISM illegal. However, the laws of men evidently “do not govern” the spirit. This CHARISM (vocation) RE-EMERGED. Was it too late? Well, we cannot say. Who knows GOD'S plans and mysterious ways?

One of man's greatest mistakes (poor us) is that WE BELIEVE that by manipulating events we also manipulate GOD.

Consecrated life, in ALL ITS FORMS, is one of the three great ecclesiastical vocations that shape Christian life. The Second Vatican Council says that consecrated life does not belong to the structure of the Church but that it does belong to its sanctity. This means that it is in the very HEART of the Church and is a crucial element of its mission since it “demonstrates the personal nature of the Christian vocation” and the call to sanctity.

We hermits, or eremites if you prefer to give us that name, give thanks to the Church – and particularly to the Second Vatican Council – for welcoming us again like the MOTHER it is. We hope that this will last for many years to come and that we MALE AND FEMALE DIOCESAN HERMITS CONSECRATED UNDER CANON LAW will never disappoint our Church and will bear much holy fruit.