With Jesus not yet coming, the going martyrdom enabled the prized an earlier encounter. For a while, this worked, but only for a while. Yet, the undying facie ad faciem desire drives some of these wise prophets on still. If they can't lay down their life for Him and meet Him pronto, they can surely give up their lives progressively to Him and do so daily until their earthly days are no longer numerable. Early on, white martyrs are monks like Pachomius, Basil, Benedict, Scholastica.
Wisdom finds the necessary daily dying challenging and engaging.
The putting up with each other fashions the latter, drawing them to the heights. Humilitate ascendere, to go up by going down, is the assurance that they're, by supreme mystery, deep into the passion of Christ-joined there already to the Preferred One till their life of Lent gives way to Alleluia. I have a responsibility for solitude in their regard, not just in my own. It is because I am one with them that I owe it to them to be alone, and when I am alone, they are not they but my own self, for there are no strangers. Surely we must.