LA FORMA DI VITA EREMITICA NELLA CHIESA PARTICOLARE “PONAM IN DESERTO VIAM (IS, 43,19)” ORIENTAMENTI

The hermit's life is expressed in the choice to live an intense and exclusive search for God's gaze. It is motivated by the desire for intimate union with Him, to Him alone is delivered in the most rigorous separation from the world. The Orientations of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, in line with the tradition of hermitic life and within the framework of canon 603, are addressed in particular to hermits who depend directly on the diocesan bishop and observe under his guidance the form of life that is proper to them. The volume contains in the Appendix the Formula of propositum and professio.