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, September 13, 2009
Cut Away Bodily Pleasure
Evagrius quoted a hermit as saying, "I cut away bodily pleasure in order to get rid of occasions for anger. I know that it is because of pleasure that I have to struggle with anger, my mind being disturbed, and my understanding dissolved."
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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