What are we to do? I think you have answered that question very well, Julia.
(By the way, I have also been influenced by Catherine Doherty's "Poustinia". According to Thomas Merton, Catherine was a Third Order Secular Franciscan. I have never read that in her writings although the influence is obvious!)
To summarise what we should do, I would say: live our rule by contemplation and action! And also "see, judge, act" in support of "the preferential option for the poor".
(Quite often I feel and sound like a broken record!)
Pax et bonum,
Andrew
