Hermit Cloistered Orders

[BoyGenius]

Are there any orders out there for men who want to live out their lives in Solace and Penance? Where they can work with their hands, labor, grow food, and live out their vocation in Holy Penance and Adoration? Simple quarters to live?

 

[poche]

Have you tried the Camaldolese or the Carthusians?

 

[hymin]

Hermits of Bethlehem in Chester, NJ

 

[fide]

You may find this vocation being lived out by a man written about some time ago: Mark Byerly. Here are some links - you may find a way to find him on one of these:

A Pilgrimage of Penance, Prayer and Sacrifice

I want to recommend to all my readers an interview that Michael Voris did with a Catholic lay man, Mark Byerly, on his pilgrimage of prayer and reparation. First, to introduce Mr. Byerly, this is …

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Oh - this second one has an email address:

Update on a Call to Desert Hermitage… Mark Byerly

Back in 9/20/2014 I wrote a blog entry on a man on pilgrimage – Mark Byerly – called, “A Pilgrimage of Penance, Prayer and Sacrifice.” I recently heard again from Mark, to …

renewthechurch.com

This blog has another post on another man seeking the same thing -

Reparation: Freely Suffering for the Good of Another

Penance and reparation for our sins – and for the sins of others – can seem strange to non-Catholics and even to many Catholics in these days. Yet Jesus opened for us, and for all call…

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Perhaps one of the links can help you…

 

[Cloisters]

Benedictines usually have a provision for a seasoned monk to become the community’s hermit. Thomas Merton became a hermit after many years in the Trappist monastic tradition.

Carthusians are not Benedictines, although I think, in their early days, they followed the OSB rule. Here is the site for the Charterhouse of the Transfiguration in Vermont:
http://transfiguration.chartreux.org/

The Camaldolese have both a monastery and eremitical laura (California):
https://contemplation.com/

The Monte Corona Camaldolese only have hermits (Ohio):
https://www.camaldolese.org/

Carmelite Hermits of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Texas):
http://www.carmelitehermits.org/

Carmelite Hermitage of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Minnesota):
http://www.carmelitehermitage.org/Site/

Hermits of Bethlehem in the Heart of Jesus (New Jersey):
https://www.bethlehemhermitage.com/

What you describe is very much like a diocesan hermit of my acquaintance.

Blessings,
Mrs Cloisters OP
Lay Dominican
http://cloisters.tripod.com/
http://cloisters.tripod.com/charity/

 

[Bookcat]

Carthusians!

 

[BoyGenius]

Cool. Thank you for the posts. That’s pretty much what I was looking for as far as resources. Now the time of discernment begins too.