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, March 24, 2009
Pray
Evagrius said, "If your attention falters, pray. As it is written, pray in fear and trembling (cf. Phillipians 2:12), earnestly and watchfully. We ought to pray like that, especially because our unseen and wicked enemies are trying to hinder us forcefully."
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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