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.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Just One Penny
Once when Arsenius was in Scetis he became ill, and he needed just one penny. He had not got one, so he accepted it as alms from someone else, and said, "Oh God, thank you! For your name's sake you have made me worthy to come to this, that I should have to ask for alms."
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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