Articles liés à Fathers of the Desert Volume 2
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He who i joiue lto the Lord, is one spirit. !C or. vi, 17 THIS wonderful auchorite had no other hermitage for many years but his love of God. His body was the cell in which his soul dwelt, and wherever the body went the soul remained undisturbed, and suffered nothing to interrupt its spiritual recollection and its union with God. Serapion was an Egyptian, and the ascetic tastes which early developed themselves in him led him to the great and holy men of the desert, with whom he underwent a severe probation. He brought his body and soul into subjection by austere mortification of the senses and the practice of obedience. He became thereby so docile to the inspirations of the Holy Ghost, that he was moved by grace as easily and surely as a boat is guided by the rudder. His penances were so great that they appeared super human, and gained for him the name of the im passible, because no one could conceive that a man who was capable of suffering could undergo so much. He was also called the Sindonite, from the piece of linen which formed his only garment. Unbroken contemplation of the Holy Scriptures, together with his spiritual and bodily mortifications, grounded him securely in humility and in the spirit of penance. Therefore, the guides of his interior life made no opposition when he formed the resolution of exchanging hi cell for the world, and of living the life of an anchorite in the midst of other men.
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