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Is Monasticism a Desire or a Calling?

By: Fr Youssef Asaad The disciples said to Him, “If this is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry!” But He said to them, “Not everyone can accept this teaching, but only those to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs who were born this way from …

wadi el natrun

Multicultured Monks of Wadi Al Natrun The prophecy of the child Jesus, which he gave during the journey of the Holy Family to Egypt, when they passed by the area of Wadi Al Natrun, fulfilled. According to what Zacharias, the bishop of Sakha in the 7th century, wrote in the homily about the Holy Family, …

Theologian Or Abbot? - St Shenouda Monastery Pimonakhos Articles

A prominent event in the Lives of St. Shenouda is that in which the Abbot accompanies St. Cyril to the Council of Ephesus (431 AD.). This fact has been attested to by St. Wesa as well as St. Shenouda himself. It is also upheld by the majority of scholars. However, "why was Shenoute invited to …

The Life Of St Shenouda - St Shenouda Monastery Pimonakhos Articles

St Shenouda was born on the 7th of Pashans 49AM / 2nd of May 333 AD, in Shandawil, a village near Akhmim in Upper Egypt. At the age of nine years old, St Shenouda’s righteous parents Darouba and Agbous asked shepherds to teach him how to care for the sheep, and to send him back …

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