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The desert fathers and mothers—ordinary Christians living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Arabia—chose to renounce the world in order to deliberately and individually follow God’s call. They embraced lives of celibacy, labor, fasting, prayer and poverty, believing that by denouncing material goods and practicing stoic self-discipline, they would find unity with the...

What is a monk? A monk is someone who every day asks: “What is a monk?” —Cistercian monk Dom Andre Louf In the third- to sixth-century desert landscape of Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and Arabia, a powerful movement was happening. Christian monasticism began flowering in response to a call to leave behind “the world.” The center of this movement was in Egypt; by the year 400 CE Egypt was a land of monks experimenting with a variety of forms of monasticism including the solitary life of the
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