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Monday February 17 2025, 05H55
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The brothers said, 'What are the [subjects of] meditation and conversation which it is meet for a man to have while he is living the life of the recluse and passing his time in silent contemplation, so that his understanding may not occupy itself with casual thoughts?' The old man said, Do you ask concerning meditation, what will a man have wherewith to put to death the world in his cell? has the man whose soul is strenuous and watchful any need [to ask] the question as to what labour he will occupy himself with when he is alone? What is there for the monk to occupy himself with except weeping? If, then, the monk be unoccupied with weeping, and he be able to pay attention to [any] other thought, what is the meditation which has died out of him? And if we come to silent meditation, we can also be constant in weeping, and therefore let us beseech our Lord most earnestly with the mind that He may grant this to us.'
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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