A daily drop of wisdom from the men and women who turned to the desert for spiritual testing and transformation on their journey toward God.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Love Your Neighbor
Antony said, "Our life and our death are with our neighbor. If we do good to our neighbor, we do good to God; if we cause our neighbor to stumble, we sin against Christ."
~~Fabric art, Neighbor Serving Neighbor by Vincent Crosby
Born about 380 A.D. in Alexandria, Egypt, to a well-respected Christian family of Macedonian heritage, Syncletica was well-educated and was said to be beautiful. When her parents died, she sold all her possessions, cut her hair as a sign of consecration and moved with her blind sister to the family tomb outside Alexandria to begin her life of ascesis. Women soon began to gather around her and she agreed to be their spiritual mentor.
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