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The Garden Of Monks

With the kind permission of Bishop Daniel (the Bishop of St Shenouda Monastery), we, the monks of the monastery, went on a spiritual retreat...

Where Is The Joy?

All these monastic practices makes monasticism seem to be full of grief and sadness, where does joy fit in all of that? At the...

Monastic Principals – Book Review

Monastic Principles By Fr. Raphael El Baramousy, St Shenouda Monastery Publications As I flicked through the pages of ‘Monastic Principles,’ it occurred to me that...

Instructions To A Monk

My son, listen and be wise, accept the true doctrine, for there are many ways. Be able to obey God like Abraham, who abandoned...

Monastic Life As Spiritual Martyrdom

By the time of St. Athanasius (295-373) the concept of spiritual martyrdom had become fairly uniform and definite. From the first remarks of St....

Monastic Tradition Of Sheheet

God offered us the grace of calling and accepting us in the sacred wilderness, i.e., the wilderness of Sheheet, the wilderness of "the weighing...

The Second Monastic Encyclical

My pious sons and daughters, Monks and nuns of our Coptic Orthodox monasteries on our land Egypt and the various continents of the world....

Sit In Your Cell And It Will Teach You All Things

The cell was regarded in the apophthegms as a specific space where one lived and followed a particular praxis that suited the monastic. The...

They Say I Am A Hermit

All it was is that I left the monastery to go for a walk in the desert. I walked until the evening. The hour...

Martha or Mary

“Martha and Mary are very beautifully portrayed in the Gospel as examples of this attitude and manner of behavior. For although Martha was indeed...

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