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Wednesday April 01 2026, 16H23
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The brothers said, ' If a man makes himself a stranger to the world, is it helpful to his soul?' The old man said, If it fulfills with praise it is helpful, and if it endures tribulation in chastity, and rejoices in our Lord, it is beneficial, but it is not, if it does away the good seed and prevents it from producing beloved fruit to God. If it bears and is blessed, it has a reward, but if it lack these things it becomes a wandering to the mind, and a sight which is profitless; but best of all these things is the tranquility of the mind which is near to God. '
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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