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Monday March 27 2023, 00H14
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There was a certain monk who lost himself in the desert, and he said to himself, 'I have kept myself rightly, and I possess all the virtues,' and he prayed to God and said, 'If I be lacking in anything, show you me how I may perform it.' And God, wishing to humble his mind, said to him, Go to such and such a head of a monastery , and whatsoever he tells you to do that do.' And God sent a revelation to the head of the monastery, and said to him, 'Behold, such and such a monk will come to you, and say you to him, Take a whip in your hands, and go forth and pasture swine.' ' And the monk went forth immediately, even as the head of the monastery told him, and pastured swine, and when those who had known him formerly, and those who had heard about him, saw him pasturing swine, they said, ' you see the great monk about whom we have heard, behold, his heart has gone mad, and a devil has seized him, and he is [now] pasturing swine.' Then God, when He saw his humility, and that he was hearing and bearing the reproach of men, set him free so that he might go back where he had been formerly.
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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