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Friday February 06 2026, 10H00
Paulus Mihi et Soc., Mart. Memoria
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They used to say that when Abba Theodore was a deacon in Scete he refused to perform the ministrations of deacon, and that he fled to several places [to avoid doing so], but the old men would bring him back again, saying, 'You shalt not forsake your place. ' Abba Theodore said to them, Permit me to make a request to God, and if He permit me I will stand up in my place'; and when he made his petition to God, he said, ' If it be your will, O my Lord, for me to remain, permit me [so to do].' Then there appeared to him a pillar of fire [which reached] from earth to heaven, and a voice said to him, 'If you are able to be like to this pillar, go and perform your ministrations'; but although he heard these things he would not consent to minister. And when he came to the church the brothers fell down before him and entreated him, saying, 'If you refuse to minister, at least hold the cup,' but he refused and said, 'If you will not allow me [to be] here [as I am], I will depart from these places'; and so they left him [there].
Q: "What does one learn in the
desert?"
Father Mina: "To have
an authentic sincere Love towards Christ"
Q: "What experience of God do we make here?"
Father Mina: "We make
the experience of the personal intimate friendship
with the person of the Lord Jesus-Christ... The
interior real lived sentiment of the intimacy with the
Lord: I Am with you."
Q: "Thank you"
Father Mina was
the first companion of Father Matta El-Maskine, one of
the first 7 hermits of the Saint Macarius Monastery. He
lives here in the manner of the first monks of the
desert.
La
lumière du désert 
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