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.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Good Mourning
In Egypt once when Poemen was going somewhere he saw a woman sitting by a grave and weeping bitterly. He said, "If all the delights of the world should come to her, they would not bring her out of her sorrow. Just so should the monk always be weeping in his heart."
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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