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Friday December 19 2025, 13H02
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The brothers said, 'Why is it that certain of the Fathers were called Meshannayane [i.e., men who transferred themselves from one place to another], since they were recluses, and never departed from their cells?' The old man said, 'Because after much silent contemplation, and unceasing prayer, and watching of the mind, they were worthy to depart from the earth in their minds, and to ascend to heaven to Christ the King. And they did not do this on occasions only, but continually, for whensoever they wished, or whensoever they sang the Psalms, or prayed, or meditated upon God, straightway their mind was exalted to heaven, and stood before our Lord. But there were other [kinds of] Meshannayane that is to say, those who lived with wild beasts in the deserts, such as Abba Bessarion, and others who were like to him.'
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