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Explain the purpose and practise of one particular religious community. Among the religious families, there are those, like the Benedictines and Cistercians, who live more in community. Others live in greater solitude. Camaldulites and Carthusians belong to the latter. The Carthusians, monks and nuns who, separately in their own monasteries, share a same rule and follow a unique model in the person of their common founding Father: St Bruno. The Carthusian does not live alone as the Carthusian monastery is a community. Nevertheless, he will pass the greater part of his life in his cell where he prays, works, takes his meals and sleeps. During the course of the week, he only leaves three times a days for offices and communal mass: in the middle of the night, the Night Office, the morning Eucharist and Vespers towards the night. The Carthusian can be a cloistered monk or a brother, two different ways of living the same vocation of solitude. This solitude is not lived for it's own sake, but as a privileged means of attaining intimacy with God.
Approximate Word count = 673
Approximate Pages = 2.7
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