St. Mary of Egypt Sunday ’09

  • So we’re here again already. Lent seems to have flown by this year, and Mother Mary of Egypt stands where she always stands, as a bea­con that lights up the last week of Lent and points the way to Holy Week and Pascha.

    I had all kinds of things I wanted to say about her. It seems to me that after hav­ing her as my patron saint for over 20 years, there’s a kind of fel­low­ship between us (though I’m inclined to say that I pick my friends much more effec­tively than she picks hers, and def­i­nitely got the bet­ter end of the deal). We’ve shared a lot of times and she has seen me through some calamities.

    So I wanted to give some per­sonal input that I thought would be of gen­eral inter­est. But in the end, I find I really can’t do bet­ter than just refer to her story as told by St. Sophronius.

    “It is good to hide the secret of a king, but it is glo­ri­ous to reveal and preach the works of God.” (Tobit 12:7) So said the Archangel Raphael to Tobit when he per­formed the won­der­ful heal­ing of his blind­ness. Actu­ally, not to keep the secret of a king is per­ilous and a ter­ri­ble risk, but to be silent about the works of God is a great loss for the soul. And I, in writ­ing the life of St. Mary of Egypt, am afraid to hide the works of God by silence. Remem­ber­ing the mis­for­tune threat­ened to the ser­vant who hid his God-given tal­ent in the earth (Mat. 25:18–25), I am bound to pass on the holy account that has reached me. …..

    Read it all HERE.


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    April 5th, 2009 | Grace | 1 Comment |

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  • Mimi 04.05.2009

    Happy Patron Saint’s Day to you (one day late) Many Years!

    I can­not believe how quickly Lent went this year.

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