The monk, who continues faithfully in his cell and lets himself be molded by it, will gradually find that his whole life tends to become one continual prayer.Accordingly, the cloister monks who seek the same goal must do as they did they must retire to deserts remote from men and to cells removed from the noise of the world, and even of the monastery itself and they must hold themselves, in a particular way, alien from all worldly news. The founding Fathers of our type of monastic life were followers of a star from the East, the example, namely, of those early Eastern monks, who, with the memory of the Blood shed by the Lord not long before still burning within them, thronged to the deserts to lead lives of solitude and poverty of spirit.65 Suffrages Book 1 : The Cloister Monks Chapter 3 54 Ceremonies for the Office in Cell Book 9 : Sacraments and Suffrages Ch. 53 Ceremonies of the Community during the Divine Office Ch.
38 Election of a Prior Book 6 : The Liturgical Seasons Ch. 35 The Statutes Themselves Book 5 : Rites and Acts of Carthusian Life Ch. 34 The Function of our Order in the Life of the Church Ch. 29 The Care and Administration of Temporal Goods Ch. 21 The Daily Celebration of the Liturgy Ch. 20 The Formation of the Brothers Book 3 : The Community Ch. 2 Praise of Life in Solitude Book 1 : The Cloister Monks Ch.
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