Dialogues with the Desert

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Abba Agathon was a young man when he became a disciple of Poemen, one of the great desert fathers. Poemen thought so highly of his young disciple that he called him Abba, a title generally reserved for the older desert fathers. He moved on and lived near the Nile River and had…
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One of the desert fathers - and probably many desert fathers and mother - said that he did not need books, he read the book of nature. No one will…
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A brother came to Scetis to visit Abba Moses and asked him for a word. The old man said to him, “Go, sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you…
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Today, March 25th, the Church celebrates the Annunciation, that momentous occasion when an angel appeared to a young woman, Mariam, and told her she…
Much closer to our own time than the fathers and mothers of the desert is the German Lutheran Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed by the Nazis just…
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In what I call his spiritual odyssey, Report to Greco, Nikos Kazantzakis includes a lengthy chapter describing his 40-day sojourn in the monasteries of…
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Søren Kierkegaard was eccentric enough that I believe he would have fit in very nicely with the desert fathers and mothers. Though he lived in the midst…
The desert fathers and mothers showed little interest in the doctrinal controversies that were raging all over the Christian oikoumene of the late Roman…
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