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Saturday May 27 2017, 13H27
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There was a certain monk whose name was Paul, and his rule of life and conduct was such that he did not approach the excessive labour of the work of the hands, nor any trafficking whatsoever, except such as was sufficient to provide for his small amount of daily food; but he performed one sort of work of excellence, that is, he prayed continually and ceased not, and he laid down the rule for himself that he should pray three hundred prayers each day, and he placed sand in his bosom, and at every prayer which he prayed, he would lay one grain of sand in his hand. Now this man asked Saint Macarius, saying, 'Father, I am greatly afflicted'; and the old man pressed him to tell him the cause of his affliction. Then he answered and said, 'I have heard about a certain virgin who hath led an ascetic life for thirty years, and Father Pf6r related concerning her that every week she went forth and recited five hundred prayers in the day. Now when I heard these things I despised myself greatly, for I am not able to recite more than three hundred prayers.' Then the holy man Macarius answered and said to him, 'I have led an ascetic life for sixty years, and I make fifty prayers a day, and I work sufficiently to provide myself with food, and I receive the brothers who come to me, and I say to them what it is seemly to say, and I pay my debts, and my mind does not condemn me as one who has treated [God] lightly; but you who make three hundred prayers in the day, are you condemned by your thoughts? Perchance you do not offer them with purity [of heart], or you are able to do more, and do not do it!'
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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