PERCEPTION OF LECTION AND PERSONAL EXAMPLE FROM EGYPT’S DESERT PEOPLE IN LIFE OF MODERN CHRISTIANS
/ПЕРЦЕПЦИЈА ПОУКЕ И ЛИЧНОГ ПРИМЕРА ЕГИПАТСКИХ  ПУСТИНОЖИТЕЉА У ЖИВОТУ САВРЕМЕНИХ ХРИШЋАНА/

Slobodan PRODIĆ

Eparchy of Dalmatia, Težačka ul. 8, 22000 Sibenik, Croatia, porodicaprodic@gmail.com

Abstract

In the begining of the 4^th century, Egypt was center of monastery life. Monks in Egypt often visited other monks and other people who came there for religical lections and advices. Now, christians can explore experiences of the first monks in the battle of temptation, everything with writtal evidence. One of that lections was practical christian everyday life. Taking advices and personal example of monks from 4^th and 5^th century, makes today monks and people eyewitness of permanently value of monks life like kind of living in Church.

Keywords

Egypt, monastery, monks from 4^th and 5^th century, lection and personal example, modern Christians

SUMMARY

The literature is the particular importance for Christians living today who really need the experience of the Egyptian hermit acquired and shaped in the process of personal development of the ascetic struggle through various temptations. The written word about monks dating from the days of Rufinus, Palladius, John Cassian or some other eyewitnesses of monks in Egypt has been, and will continue to be, not only a testimony for centuries. Moreover, the lessons learned and the situations they have gone through are a certain church school of blessing, so the existence of this literature is a way of presenting Egyptian monasticism to the widest circle of believing Christians. As for the fact that, through the lessons taught by the faithful, they, together with their clergy, can find answers to how to deal with the difficulty that a person overcomes at a given moment. We can safely say that we feel the influence of Egyptian monks on Christians' lives in their fullness.

(Language: serbian)

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