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, May 12, 2009
Fortitude
They said about Theodore and Lucius from the town of Alexandria that for fifty years they strengthened themselves like this. They used to say, "When this winter is over, we will move from here." And in the summer they would say, "At the end of the summer let us go away."
Those renowned monks lived their whole life devotedly in this way.
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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