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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 …

Shredding For Lent | St Shenouda Monastery Pimonakhos Articles

We all know Lent to be a period of asceticism, whereby we limit what we desire to eat for spiritual revival and growth, as quoted by  St Isaac the Syrian:  “There can be no knowledge of the mysteries of God on a full stomach.” So knowing this, acknowledging that the period of lent is meant …

Time and Calendars of Jesus Birth - St Shenouda Monastery Pimonakhos Articles

The reckoning of time in antiquity went through a variety of permutations and combinations until Julius Caesar, on the basis of the Egyptian solar calendar, standardized a 365-day year with an extra day inserted on leap years. Both the church and Western culture in general followed this solar calendar until the reforms of Pope Gregory …

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