Set apart, and yet interacting with the local community, the Hermit embraces a life of solitude for the sake of the love of God, in order to deepen the contemplative state of Union and participation in the Divine Wisdom.
Karen Markham has a first class degree in music from the University of Leeds and a PhD in musical composition from the University of Durham. She began her spiritual training in the Sufi Community of Sheikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, in Philadelphia, USA, from 1995 - 1997.
Since the autumn of 2000, she has worked closely with Hieromonk Silouan of the Monastery of Saints Anthony and Cuthbert, absorbing the Orthodox Liturgy, the Eastern Christian eremitical tradition and the Mystical Theology of the Eastern/Western Church.
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