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.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Thy Will Be Done
A hermit who was very holy lived near to a community of monks. Some visitors to the community happened to go to see him and made him eat, though it was not the proper time. Later, the monks of the community said to him, "Weren't you upset, abba?"
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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