Sentences with phrase «community of hermits»
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This led some of the more devout to escape the temptations of public life and go into the desert, either as hermits or to live in communities.
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In a way, we are like Merton who are living as kind of hermits out in the world, many of us in isolation from other Christians and church communities.
Most of us, not being hermits, also are called to love and serve others: a parish priest his parishioners, a cloistered nun her community, a wife her husband, a father his children.
Our setting is a small backwater community, yet catastrophes and contretemps fairly tumble over one another within minutes of the film's start: two members of the local constabulary gone missing, the several - days - ripe corpse of a young woman turned up at lakeside, another cop shot in the foot by a whacked - out hermit, and wait, is there yet one more dead woman to be discovered out there?