 Pachomius created the community or "cenobitic" organization, in which male or female monastics lived together and held their property in common under the leadership of an abbot or abbess.Pachomius realized that some men, acquainted only with the eremitical life, might speedily become disgusted if the distracting cares of the cenobitical life were thrust too abruptly upon them.He therefore allowed them to devote their whole time to spiritual exercises, undertaking all the community's administrative tasks himself.