Eve Baker
The solitary is first of all a useless person. This in itself is remarkable in a society where everyone is rated by their occupation or activity. The call of the solitary is not to be anything, to have any sort of public persona or mask. It is rather to be totally available to God, to live a hidden life of solitude. It is a call to share in the profound solitude of God, in the depths of the mystery of God’s being.
The world refuses this solitude, this God who is wholly other from the world’s concerns, the one who calls us beyond those concerns into the divine mystery. Even the incarnation is an inconceivable mystery. According to the seventh century theologian Maximus the confessor: 'By taking flesh God makes himself understood only by appearing still more incomprehensible. He remains hidden… even in this disclosure.'
The Path of the Solitary
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