Follow up Question to "Consumed by the Temporal or in Love with the God Revealed as Emmanuel?"

This was originally included as part of an earlier post. I have given it a space of its own.

[[Thanks Sister for your response. I have one follow-up question. What does it mean to speak of "Canon Law hermits vs. God's Hermits"?]]

As noted here many times over the years, there are two basic ways to live as a hermit in the Church today. The first is to do so canonically (or "publicly" with a public commitment), whether as a solitary hermit under c 603 or under other canons in an institute of consecrated life ordered to eremitical life or that allows for hermits in its proper law. This form of eremitical life implies a second consecration besides that of baptism. The second is to do so non-canonically, which is a response to God in light of one's baptism in Christ without the additional public rights and obligations that come with a second consecration. 

When authentic, both are of God, and both are empowered by God, whether through baptism alone or through baptism and a second consecration. Human beings mediate both of these consecrations, whether in the Rite of Baptism and the pouring of water, or in the Rite of Perpetual Profession and the solemn prayer of consecration, but they remain the work of God and the basis for two different eremitical vocations. The reference you ask about is both misleading and simplistic. It's important to understand that both non-canonical and canonical eremitical life represent significant Divine vocations. There need not be any "competition" nor denigration of the other vocation. They differ, yes, but both are calls by God and both are to be esteemed.