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Tuesday July 01 2025, 18H44
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A certain brother asked one of the old men a question, and said to him, 'Do you wish me to keep two darics as provision for the needs of the feebleness of the body? ' And the old man, perceiving his mind and also that he wished to keep them, said to him, 'Yea.' Now when the brother had gone to his cell, he became troubled in his mind, and he debated in his thoughts, saying, 'Did the old man speak truthfully or not? ' Then he rose up, and went back to the old man, and made excuses to him, and said, 'For our Lord's sake, tell me the truth, because my thoughts are troubling me about these two darics. ' The old man said to him, ' I spake to you as I did because I saw that your mind was to keep them, but it is not necessary for you to keep the two darics, except only for the need of your body. But why is your hope set upon two darics? If by chance they were lost would not God take care of you? Let us then cast [our] care upon Him, for it belongs to Him to take care of us continually.'
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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