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Here you will find a variety of extracts of articles written by various authors.
Selected sayings of the Desert Fathers on Fasting
A leader of a community asked Abba Poemen: “How can I gain the fear of God?” Abba Poemen replied: “How indeed can we gain...
Time and Calendars of Jesus’ Birth
The reckoning of time in antiquity went through a variety of permutations and combinations until Julius Caesar, on the basis of the Egyptian solar...
Jesus the Bridegroom
In our day controversy abounds over the mysterious institution we call "marriage." For some, marriage is a purely human invention, a kind of civil...
Monasticism In The Libyan Desert
After the period of martyrdom came the period of monasticism in Libya. There were remote monastic communities in the mountains and desert that survived...
Theodore of Cyrene
Another Libyan confessor who appears in the Russian Synaxary is Hieromartyr St Theodore (also known as Theuderius). Before his becoming bishop of Cyrene, he...
The Anchorite’s View of the Cell
In current speech, the word "cell" immediately evokes a room where, in a prison, a criminal is locked up, isolated and cut off from...
Return to your cell
A brother in the Cells had put some palm tree leaves to soak and, as he sat down to plait them, his mind told...
Theologian Or Abbot?
A prominent event in the Lives of St. Shenouda is that in which the Abbot accompanies St. Cyril to the Council of Ephesus (431...
The Agapy Meal Of The Hermits Of Scete
A very interesting and important clue to the nature of this communal meal is furnished by the name used by the hermits themselves when...
The Monk And The Life Of Solitude
The monk doesn’t need anyone to tell him about solitude for the monk came to the monastery seeking to be isolated from the world,...
