Here’s some advice from the Desert Fathers and Mothers: go to your cell, and your cell will teach you everything you need to know …

Here’s some advice from the Desert Fathers and Mothers: go to your cell, and your cell will teach you everything you need to know … In essence, this is what’s being said: stay inside your vocation, inside your commitments, inside your legitimate conscriptive duties, inside your church, inside your family, and they will teach you where life is found and what love means. Be faithful to your commitments, and what you are ultimately looking for will be found there.

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