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	Al-Ahram Weekly \| People \| Limelight: Desert fathers
		Monasteries continued to rise from the desert sands, amidst striking green palm trees: "It is easy to feel a divine spirit where water suddenly rises from the desert floor".
		They came to hear soulful songs of the desert, and untold tales of endless wonders of Egypt's noble past, of decaying texts that must be redeemed and restored.
		Egypt is the cradle of civilisation, the home and guardian to its splendid ancient monuments, from the age of the mighty Pharaohs, to the advent of Christianity and the rich Islamic era.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2006/796/pe2.htm (967 words)

	Desert Fathers - OrthodoxWiki
		The Desert Fathers were early monastic founders in the deserts of Egypt, fleeing the cities and making their lives in the wilderness, living in asceticism and solitude.
		The desert fathers were often appealed to for spiritual guidance and counsel by their disciples.
		Desert Father: In the Desert with Saint Anthony.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Desert_Fathers (457 words)

	Monk? » Desert Fathers
		He took a sack and filled it with sand and carried it on his shoulder; then he put a little sand into a small bag that he carried in front of him.
		When the Fathers asked him what this meant he said, ‘In this sack which contains much sand, are my sins which are many; I have put them behind me so that I might not be troubled about them and so that I might not weep.
		So the old man said to him, ‘You have not yet found a ship nor put your cargo aboard it and before you have sailed, you have already arrived at the city.
	monasticism.org /monk/category/desert-fathers (482 words)

	IBLIOGRAPHY #6: Antony & the Desert Fathers
		Jeremy Driscoll, "Exegetical Procedures in the Desert Monk Poemen," in Mysterium Christi: Symbolgegenwort und theologische Bedeutung: Festschrift für Basil Studer, Studia Anselmiana 116, ed.
		Evagrius was a friend of the Cappadocians Fathers and would become the first great theoretician of the spiritual life.
		This work is a set of vignettes of some of the leading Desert Fathers and Mothers.
	camellia.shc.edu /theology/antony.htm (4064 words)

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		For the monks of the desert, the words of Scripture (as also, indeed, those of the Ancients), transcended the limited dimension of the "event" in which these words were first encountered and in which their meaning was discerned.
		The Fathers of the Desert sometimes responded to a question put to them with a word from Scripture, but they also replied with other words, to which their hearers gave practically the same importance.
		The Fathers of the Desert remind us of the primordial importance of Scripture in the life of the Christian and the necessity of letting ourselves be constantly transformed in the crucible of the Word of God.
	users.skynet.be /scourmont/Armand/wri/lectio-eng.htm (6084 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| THE DESERT FATHERS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		They were the forerunners of the monks who in succeeding centuries would form cenobitic monasteries--that is, communities of monks and nuns living no longer as hermits but under the rule and care of an abbot or abbess.
		The most insistent response many modern readers have to the stories of The Desert Fathers is one of alienation or disbelief--a feeling that it is impossible for those who cannot give up worldly responsibilities and things to learn from these saints in the wilderness.
		The solitude of The Desert Fathers was based on the desire to live as though "I alone and God are in this world" [p.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/desert_fathers.asp (1012 words)

	The Ancient Fathers of the Desert: Introduction and Commentary
		If the living Fathers of the Church are disappearing and their availability to some Orthodox is ever so slight, they have none the less left us, as one spiritual man has assured me, “elders bound in leather and gold.” They have left to us their words and their written instructions.
		Combined with the anecdotes of the desert Fathers are a few anecdotes which I have attributed to spiritual people of our own times, mostly holy men and women living in Greece.
		Chrysostomos, of the anecdotes and tales of the early Fathers of the desert are superb.
	www.goarch.org /en/ourfaith/articles/article8134.asp (3268 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Anthony
		At length, about the year 305, he yielded to their importunities an emerged from his retreat, and, to the surprise of all, he appeared to be as when he had gone in, not emaciated, but vigorous in body and mind.
		This was the form of monastic life in the deserts of Nitria and Scete, as portrayed by Palladius and Cassian.
		He is justly recognized as the father not only of monasticism, strictly so called, but of the technical religious life in every shape and form.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01553d.htm (1742 words)

	desert - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		Desert emphasizes lack of water; it refers to a dry, barren, treeless region, usually sandy: an oasis in a desert.
		Deserts cover about one fifth of the Earth's surface, with the principal warm deserts located mainly along the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, where warm, rising equatorial air masses that have already lost most of their moisture descend over the subtropical regions.
		Cool deserts are located at higher elevations in the temperate regions, often on the lee side of a barrier mountain range where the prevailing winds drop their moisture before crossing the range.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/desert (1770 words)

	Desert Fathers on Solitude - Articles - House of Solitude - Hermitary
		To the Christian Desert Fathers and Mothers, solitude is not merely a physical state to be contrasted with living among people.
		Solitude was initially an experimental mode of living due to the harsh environment of the desert, the need for weekly liturgical attendance, and an unregulated (by church authorities) extra-monastic life.
		Arsenius explained the paramount need for solitude with a real-world analogy: A maiden hidden in her father's house has many suitors, but once she is married and about in the world she is no longer the object of desire, only, perhaps, of gossip.
	www.hermitary.com /solitude/desert.html (1731 words)

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		The literature produced among the monks themselves is not very sophisticated; it comes from the desert, from the place where the amenities of civilization were at their lowest point anyway, where there was nothing to mark a contrast in lifestyles; and the emphasis is less on what was lacking and more on what was present.
		In the solitude of the desert they found themselves able to live in a way that was hard but simple, as children of God.
		While abba Macarius was praying in his cave in the desert, a hyena suddenly appeared and began to lick his feet and taking him gently by the hem of his tunic, she drew him towards her own cave.
	www.coptic.net /articles/ParadiseOfDesertFathers.txt (3627 words)

	Holy Transfiguration Antiochian Orthodox Church—The Paradise of the Desert Fathers
		Often, the first thing that struck those who heard about the Desert Fathers was the negative aspect of their lives.
		The literature produced among the monks themselves is not very sophisticated; it comes from the desert, from the place where the amenities of civilization were at their lowest point anyway, where there was nothing to mark a contrast in lifestyles; and the emphasis is less on what was lacking and more on what was present.
		In the solitude of the desert they found themselves able to live in a way that was hard but simple, as children of God.
	www.htaoc.com /faith/indepth/desert_fathers.html (1081 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 97046372
		It is not surprising, then, that the desert began to receive devout Christians, inspired by the example of John the Baptizer-of whom "there was none greater born of woman"-and of the Master himself, who spent forty days in the desert before he began his public ministry.
		Besides the many who went to the desert to settle, the latter part of the century began to see a steady flow of pilgrims, seeking to be edified by immediate contact with these already fabled saints and to partake of their wisdom.
		However, the fathers and mothers themselves, along with their early historians, sought to make it clear to us that this is not the case.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/random041/97046372.html (2175 words)

	The Oblate
		For example, the fathers give practical statements like reminding oneself that "it is not your business to do that (Agathon 18, pg 23), or as Amoun said, when temptation comes say "God of all virtue, by the payers of my father, save me from it" (Amoun 3, pg 32).
		While the fathers seem to emphasize more of a human responsibility in the process of examining the soul, the product is the same.
		Faulty thinking would lead to the conclusion that the fathers were solely consumed with a humanistic sense of their sin.
	www.oblates.net /Articles/desertfathers.html (1407 words)

	Amazon.ca: Desert Wisdom: Sayings from the Desert Fathers: Books: H Nouwen (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This book should convince most readers that reading the Desert Fathers (and Mothers) is enjoyable religious reading for the common spiritual seeker.
		The sayings of the Desert Fathers are characterized by their pithy and direct nature.
		It was Nouwen's course that introduced Nomura to the literature of the desert and began the process that led to this book.
	www.amazon.ca /Desert-Wisdom-Sayings-Fathers/dp/1570753717 (689 words)

	Michael McClellan Book -- "Monasticism in Egypt: Images and Words of the Desert Fathers"
		But in the deserts of Egypt, sixteen centuries after the Desert Fathers, monasticism still thrives, and it is to these isolated monasteries in one of the world's most inhospitable environments that photographer Michael McClellan here turns his lens.
		Through his peaceful and timeless fl-and-white images, McClellan reveals the quiet, spiritual world of today's desert fathers in the Coptic monasteries of the Red Sea Mountains, Wadi al-Natrun, and Upper Egypt, and in the Greek Orthodox monastery of St. Catherine at the foot of Mount Sinai.
		Illuminating the photographs are extracts from the "Paradise of the Fathers," tales of the Desert Fathers collected by Saint Palladius.
	www.michaelmcclellan.com /book.htm (290 words)

	The Desert Fathers - Ascesis - Antiri
		To the Desert Fathers, ascesis was a necessity.
		Let's look at how the Desert Fathers viewed their asceticism to help our understanding.
		Desert monks (which, by the way, is the Orthodox Church's teaching) believed that the passions of body and heart were unruly and disordered as a result of sin, and that the body needed to be disciplined to make it obedient so that the soul could rejoice in Christ.
	www.geocities.com /phsken/desertfathers/ascesis2.html (640 words)

	mundane sounds: Interview: The Desert Fathers
		This is a man who preaches that the village idiot is the wise sage, that the lowly servant is the beloved son of God, and that man's best friend is nothing is one of God's minions.
		Listen to the wise men of Desert Fathers, and ignore at your own peril.
		The real Desert Fathers are our prototypes, to be sure.
	www.mundanesounds.com /2004/06/interview-desert-fathers.html (1166 words)

	The Desert Fathers
		They were known to history as the desert fathers.
		"In many ways the desert fathers were like Cain—eager to please but not willing to listen to the instruction of the Lord and do what is right.
		While it is certainly true the Desert Fathers experimented with contemplative prayer, what is not true is that it originated with them.
	www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com /desertfathers.htm (635 words)

	Paradise of the Desert Fathers
		The wisdom of the desert monks of Egypt, Syria and Palestine.
		The literature produced among the monks comes from the desert, from the place where the amenities of civilization were at their lowest point anyway, where there was nothing to mark a contrast in lifestyles; and the emphasis is less on what was lacking and more on what was present.
		While Abba Macarius was praying in his cave in the desert, a hyena suddenly appeared and began to lick his feet and taking him gently by the hem of his tunic, she drew him towards her own cave.
	www.thenazareneway.com /paradise_of_the_desert_fathers.htm (5312 words)

	Church of St. Paul in the Desert - Episcopal Church - Palm Springs, CA - St. Paul the Hermit
		The Episcopal Church of St. Paul in the Desert was named for Saint Paul The Hermit who was the first of the Desert Fathers.
		The significance of this particular church being named for this first desert monk is far deeper than the mere fact that the parish is located in the Desert community of Palm Springs.
		As the first of the Desert monks he certainly was the principal motivation for the whole movement of these men who spent their lives in solitary meditation and prayer.
	www.stpaulinthedesert.com /stpaulthehermit (337 words)

	Greenflame: Desert Fathers and Mothers
		The spirituality of the desert fathers and mothers has interested me since I was introduced to it in a Christian spirituality paper a few years ago.
		Some desert sayings were included along with Kiwi psalms, various prayers from the NZ Prayer Book and other sources from around the world.
		I often come back to the desert fathers and mothers.
	www.greenflame.org /archives/2004/05/15/desert_fathers_and_mothers.php (390 words)

	Book Review: Lives of the Desert Fathers
		While the Apothegmata patrum or 'Sayings of the Desert Fathers', often closely associated in modern readership with this text, contain collections of the sayings and acts of the early Egyptian desert communities, the History recounts the experience of visiting these communities by those who came to encounter them from 'the cities'.
		The volume includes a lengthy and very helpful introduction by Benedicta Ward, outlining the text and its sources, the social aspects of the narrative, the general environment and history of early Egyptian monasticism, the ideals of these communities, and the occurrence of miracles and their significance during the period and beyond.
		In all, The Lives of the Desert Fathers is an excellent volume, and one that comes highly recommended to all those interested in the history of monastic Egypt.
	www.monachos.net /books/desert_ascetic/lives_des_frs.shtml (502 words)

	Gleanings from Orthodox Christian Authors & the Holy Fathers - Desert_fathers
		Evil thoughts are killing me.' The old man said to him, 'When a mother wishes to wean her child, she rubs her breast with quills, and when the child comes to suck as usual, the bitterness repels it.
		Then the two of them went to the monk in the desert, and seeing each other they rejoiced, and the two men related to the third the tribulations which had befallen them in the world.
		One of the Fathers related that there was an anchorite in the desert of Nicopolis whom a devout layman used to serve.
	www.orthodox.net /gleanings/desert_fathers.html (5116 words)

	Desert Fathers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Desert Fathers were the earliest Christian monks of Egypt.
		The desert, to them, was a place of extreme spiritual struggle, perhaps of aridity combined with a dependence on God.
		Their lives were to epitomize the forty days which Jesus is said to have spent in the wilderness before beginning his ministry.
	www.themystica.org /mystica/articles/d/desert_fathers.html (145 words)

	Christ Desert Monastery: Stories from the Desert Fathers
		The earliest Christian monks inhabited the desert land of the Middle East from the end of the second century AD onwards.
		Known as the "Desert Fathers", they left a coherent doctrine mostly expressed in the rules and traditions which they passed on to their disciples.
		Many of the important points of their teaching are expressed in the form of anecdotes, of which we shall present here some favorites.
	christdesert.org /Seeking_God/Stories_from_the_Desert_Fathers (129 words)

	"Monasticism in Egypt" Book -- by Michael McClellan
		We are confident you will find this book a true blessing as it brings to life the words of the ancient saints of the Egyptian desert by showing the Desert Fathers of today who walk those same paths and live in the same places as those monks of 1600 years ago.
		But in the deserts of Egypt, sixteen centuries after the Desert Fathers, monasticism still thrives, and it is to these isolated monasteries in one of the world's most inhospitable environments that photographer Michael McClellan here turns his lens.
		Through his peaceful and timeless fl-and-white images, McClellan reveals the quiet, spiritual world of today's desert fathers in the Coptic monasteries of the Red Sea Mountains, Wadi al-Natrun, and Upper Egypt, and in the Greek Orthodox monastery of St. Catherine at the foot of Mount Sinai.
	www.innerlightproductions.com /book.htm (378 words)

	Photos of Monks and Monasteries of the Eastern Churches
		"Monasticism in Egypt: Images and Words of the Desert Fathers" is a beautifully-printed volume you will treasure for years as you view images of modern-day Fathers of the Egyptian Deserts and read the words of the ancient Desert Fathers of the third and fourth centuries.
		The "Thought of the Week" is like a cool oasis in the desert, uplifting my spirit.
		Our first book, Monasticism in Egypt: Images and Words of the Desert Fathers, is now available from the American University in Cairo Press.
	www.innerlightproductions.com (1374 words)

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