Carthusian Spirituality

Another link with a look at Carthusian life:

http://www.dropoutdiaries.com/2009/0...rthusian-monks

Spiritual Unity:

Carthusian Monks on the internet!! That is astonishing to me. It is both wonderful and amazing. It was my understanding that Carthusian Monks didn't even speak to each other accept on Sunday and Feast Days, and now they are chatting on the internet.

Inner Peace Flows From Love
Tradition Day by Day

The way to attain the perfection of divine love is thus stated. Do you think that I have come to bring peace on earth? In other words: Do not imagine that I have come to offer people a sensual, worldly, and unruly peace that will enable them to be united in their vices and achieve earthly prosperity. No, I tell you, I have not come to offer that kind of peace, but rather division — a good, healthy kind of division, physical as well as spiritual. Love for God and desire for inner peace will set those who believe in me at odds with wicked men and women, and make them part company with those who would turn them from their course of spiritual progress and from the purity of divine love, or who attempt to hinder them.
Good, interior, spiritual peace consists in the repose of the mind in God, and in a rightly ordered harmony. To bestow this peace was the chief reason for Christ's coming. This inner peace flows from love. It is an unassailable joy of the mind in God, and it is called peace of heart. It is the beginning and a kind of foretaste of the peace of the saints in heaven — the peace of eternity.

Denis the Carthusian, On Luke: Opera Omnia 12, 72-74. Denis the Carthusian (1408 - 1471), greatly influenced by the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius, wrote precious biblical commentaries.

Carthusian Monk Marsha Adams

Spiritual Unity:

Which Monks are you e-mailing with? Carthusian?

I relate to all the, Rules of the Hermits. I emailed with one of the Monks a couple weeks ago and he agreed with me that my life reflects theirs in that I am mostly isolated from the world.And Iike it this way. I have learned so much more spiritually this way then busy in the world. I was a go getter in the world. Now I am, but in different way. I am very grateful to God for my life just the way it is.

rule for hermits is so profound.

Thanks to the phoenix for the link - Rules for Hermits.
http://www.umilta.net/eremit.html
There is much to digest.
I like the exclamation at the end.
The world is a global hermitage!

thank you for welcome me here.

Marsha Adams:

Thank you very much for an in-depth, real world look into the life of a Cistercian monk. Wise lessons that each of us can apply to our own lives. Which of the points / lessons do you find most meaningful?

(Question is open to all.)