And he gave that up in order to go to this monastery, where he lives his life, and a life of meditation and prayer and connection with god. Bishop thomas, on the other hand, is a major bishop in the coptic faith in egypt, but listen particularly, because weve had barbaras beautiful sahara once again, were getting too many synchronicities in this class. We have this book from the library, folks; thats why you cant see the front on it but we have this book about the sahara well, were going to the sahara; i forgot about that. Yeah, were going back to the sahara, and listen to what life would be like there. And so, if we could, lets go to st. Macarius monastery in the deserts outside of cairo. The word monk , or monastery, monasticism, from mono mono means single, onesay but one. Here is all the monastic ones mono, monk, monastic they lived as hermits alone in the desert. Now we live in a community together, so we built a wall all around the land but till now, we live alone ourselves. We w
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