The Man Who Carried Egypt West
He went to Egypt to ask the old monks how a man ought to pray, and wrote down every answer. A complete 20,000-word book, free and yours to keep. Not a sample chapter.
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The sand still held the day's heat when the two young men lowered themselves to the floor of the old man's cell. It was past compline, though at Scete no bell marked the hour; a monk knew it was time to pray by the deepening of the dark and by the particular quality of silence that settled over the desert once the last color drained from the west. Inside the cell there was no lamp. There rarely was, in these dwellings scattered like grain across the wadi. A man did not need to see his own hands to weep over his sins. Abba Moses let them kneel a long while before he spoke. He was a big man, broad through the shoulders in a way that no fifteen years of bread and salt had managed to whittle down, and his voice, when it finally came, was quiet enough that both visitors had to still their breathing to catch it. "Tell me," he said, "why have you come." It was not an idle question, and both young men knew it. They had crossed a sea to reach Egypt.
9 movements, carrying the whole life of Saint John Cassian from beginning to enduring memory.
- The Question That Opens Everything
- A Boy by the River, a Friend for Life
- Into the Desert, Among the Fathers
- When the Desert Was Scattered
- A Harbor in Gaul
- Two Books, One Cathedral
- The Map of the Heart
- A Life the Church Would Not Let Go Of
- If You Want to Go Further
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