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.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Love God
Amoun of Nitria came to Antony, and said to him, "I see that I have more to suffer than you; how is it that your reputation among men is greater than mine?"
Antony said, "It is because I love God more than you do."
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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