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Wednesday November 05 2025, 08H51
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On one occasion an old man went up from Scete to the brothers in the mountain, and when they saw that he was a man of great ascetic labours, and that he practised stern self-denial, they entreated him to let them make a meal for him, and they brought him a little wine to drink. Now the people of the country heard about him, and they brought him a man who was afflicted with a devil that he might heal him; and when the devil saw him, he began to revile him, saying, 'Hast you brought this winebibber to me?' And the old man did not wish to cast him out because of the praise of men, but, because the devil had reviled him, he said to him, 'I believe in Christ, and I will not have drunk [this] cup of wine until you have gone forth'; and as he began to drink that devil cried out, and said, 'You are consuming me': and before the old man could drink that cup [of wine] the devil went forth by the grace of Christ.
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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