Saints & Religious Leaders
Saint Anthony the Great
Pope Kyrillos VI
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The Monastery of Saint Pishoy in Wadi El Natrun has announced plans to produce a 34-episode historical TV series that will chronicle the life and times of the late Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, local media reports. The series, entitled Pope of the Arabs, will star Egyptian actor Maged El Kedwany who was cast in the titular role.
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“We will produce this work at the request of most of the members of the Christian community,” Bishop Bemwa El Anba Bishoy told Arab Weekly’s Amr Emam. “The new work will document every detail in the life of the pope.” (continue . . .)
By V.K. McCarty
Jesus may have prayed about several of the things that worry us today: the feeling that the world has been overrun by elements of evil can be overwhelming. So, it is good to remember that Jesus sustained himself by withdrawing to pray alone, often in the wilderness. And many were inspired to follow him there, particularly in the early centuries of Christianity.
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While most of these Early Christian desert elders were men praying to God in the rough terrain of the hills outside of Palestinian villages and above the Nile, there were women as well who withdrew into the desert, seeking to truly live out the command of Christ. They, too, have left us a treasury of spiritual wisdom in their short sayings—apophthegmata—similar in form to the earliest remembered sayings of Jesus. Even within the Greek collection, the Sayings of the Desert Fathers, (Apophthegmata Patrum), there are a trio of women elders remembered for their God-loving teaching. (continue...)
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