The Four Types of Monks

I was just very personally convicted on that also reading Del Noche on the affluent society and our whole kind of reduced notion of well-being. So what's the answer? Well, and this ties into what I was talking about this afternoon with John Paul, the great faculty, which is great. We were reading the rule of St. Benedict together. It's another ancient text, 6th century. And Benedict starts by saying there's four kinds of monks: centibites, anchorites, Sarah Bytes and gyroveg. He says chinabytes live in a monastery under a rule of life with an abbot. Anchorites are ones who have perfected the common life and