Oblate Program at Belmont Abbey, NC

Tag: Scete

Love of Another

At one time the abbot John was climbing up from Scete with other brethren and the person who was  guiding them mistook the way for it was night. And the brethren said to the abbot John, “What shall we do, Father, for the brother has missed the way, and we may lose ourselves and die?”… Read More ›

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Good Company?

Certain brethren, being minded to go from Scete to the abbot Antony, went aboard a ship that they might go to him: and they found in that same ship an old man who likewise was minded to go to Antony. But the brethren did not know him. And as they sat in the ship they… Read More ›

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When God reveals to you that the time is right

There was a certain hermit named Pior among the holy fathers who while still a young man had been initiated into monastic life by blessed Antony, but who lived with him for only a few years. For when he was twenty-five he went away to another secret part of the desert with Antony’s full knowledge… Read More ›

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