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Thursday October 08 2026, 17H59
Artoldus, Mon. Past. 3 lect.
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A brother asked an old man, saying, 'Why do I keep my sins in remembrance without being pained about them?' The old man said to him, 'This happens to us through contempt and negligence. When a man wishes to boil some food for his need, and he finds some small sparks of fire in his fireplace, he desires to take care of them, and preserve them, and to kindle therefrom a large flame; but if he neglects them they become black and die out. And thus also is it with ourselves, for if, according as God has bestowed upon us, we remember our sins, and we desire and come to the life of silence, and we possess persistence in remembering our sins, we will acquire great grief in our hearts; but, if we hold them in contempt and do not even remember them, we will be rejected.
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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