The monastic community lives always in a call echoed by the Lord. Master:
where do you live? ask two disciples of John the Baptist. "He said to them: Come and see. And they went and saw where he lived, and that day they stayed close to him" (Jn. 2.38-39).

    To meet Jesus, to welcome in Him the living Word of the Father, constitutes the heart of the monk's vocation. He is the source of life, the center that co-ordinates life and unifies its aims.

    To become a monk means above all a journey of seeking the Lord and conversion (conversio morum) that leads to interior reunification by following and imitating Jesus.
It means living a personal relationship with the Father, united with Jesus and inserted into the dynamic flow of love that enriches the brotherhood through the effusion of the Holy Spirit.

    A small reflection of the holy church, the monastic community transmits the life-experience and spiritual wisdom with its own lived experience.
One grows in a process of discernment and growth that has the characteristics of a beginning, through the experience transmitted from one generation to another, verified by the Gospel.

    Everyone is called by the Lord to respond in the first person with the obedience of faith in a growing freedom in love of God and the brethren where it finds its meaning and measure.
The choice of celibacy for the Kingdom, lived in communion with the brethren, is the most meaningful symbol of the radical orientation of one's whole existence for the Lord.

    The classical schema of the Benedictine tradition of "Ora et labora" (prayer and work) orients the Camaldolese monk's days, articulates the hours and determines the logistic spaces for community

    In the Benedictine tradition, permanence in the same monastery (stability) is the general rule of monastic profession. It supports and expresses the persevering task of the monk dedicated to God.

    In the Camaldolese community, the relationship of the monk with place is more elastic. We wish to take account most effectively of the person's interior conditions and lifestyle offered by one's surroundings. The monk is allowed freely to pass from monastery to hermitage, or vice-versa, after some discernment, accoridng to the recognized needs of each.

    In the hermitage, the "cell" is the pulsing heart of the monk and community. It is interior space before physical space. Its structure is amzaing for its simplicity and capacity for hospitality to those who go there out of love of freedom that does not flee life but nourishes a more profound communion in the Spirit.

    The Camaldolese community takes care to promote in its members a serious theological and spiritual search, in dialogue with the ancient tradition of the Fathers and with modern culture.
It maintains as important today more than ever, to give objective consistency and the capacity for critical reflection, in the light of faith, to the personal growth of the monk and the service of animation that the community is called to develop in Church and society.