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Saturday July 21 2018, 20H38
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When, on one occasion, I was sitting with a certain old man at Oxyrhyncus, now this old man used to make great alms and oblations, a widow came to him and demanded a little wheat, and he said to her, 'Go and bring a measure, and I will measure out [some] for you.' And when she had brought it, and he took the measure in his hand he said to her, 'This is too large'; and he put the widow to the blush. And when she had gone, I said to the Abba and priest, were you selling the wheat to the widow?' and he said, No; I gave it to her in charity.' Then I said to him, 'If .'you did give all this wheat to her in charity, why did you aft harshly with her, and measure it, and [so] put her to shame?'
Q: "What does one learn in the
desert?"
Father Mina: "To have
an authentic sincere Love towards Christ"
Q: "What experience of God do we make here?"
Father Mina: "We make
the experience of the personal intimate friendship
with the person of the Lord Jesus-Christ... The
interior real lived sentiment of the intimacy with the
Lord: I Am with you."
Q: "Thank you"
Father Mina was
the first companion of Father Matta El-Maskine, one of
the first 7 hermits of the Saint Macarius Monastery. He
lives here in the manner of the first monks of the
desert.
La
lumière du désert 
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