Comments on: Elder Mary Magdalene, a hermit from the Sinai Desert https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2023/09/elder-mary-magdalene-a-hermit-from-the-sinai-desert Mon, 05 May 2025 05:17:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Irena https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2023/09/elder-mary-magdalene-a-hermit-from-the-sinai-desert#comment-8108 Mon, 05 May 2025 05:17:21 +0000 https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/?p=40365#comment-8108 This report fills me with joy… and terror! Joy for the obvious reason of GOD’s calling this faithful follower; terror because when I was leaving Sinai in 1991, I received a VERY STRONG URGING that it was MOST important that women pray there, to the extent that I began speaking to the guide on the bus who informed me of the women’s monastery at Feiran. Although I was barely able to stay on the bus, such was the strength of my conviction, because there WERE sisters praying there, & because I was married& expected to return home to Australia, I held my seat.
Some few years later, I received a vision of Mt Horeb, since when I have felt I should exercise my call to hermitage ( a call received in 1997, within the 1st call to “come away with me” in 1983) there at the mountain!
Spiritual direction sought directed against this. So the years since have wrought their own work…Husband left me for a woman 35 years his junior… then he died. I have lived since he left, alone with The Alone, in joyed solitude silence & simplicity as a voluntary hermit, in prayer & penance for my own sins & for the world.

Please pray for me, as still I wonder whether I should sell my house and go to Mt Sinai until I am called home!

Thank you so much for this story! Bless you!

]]> By: Maria Magdalena https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2023/09/elder-mary-magdalene-a-hermit-from-the-sinai-desert#comment-7538 Mon, 18 Dec 2023 08:56:20 +0000 https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/?p=40365#comment-7538 Thank you for your article. I hope to learn more about when she was tonsured, who tonsured her, etc? I am a little confused about the timeline of her tonsure. Was it immediately after she was baptized? Thank you!

]]> By: Magdalena Hazel https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2023/09/elder-mary-magdalene-a-hermit-from-the-sinai-desert#comment-7442 Thu, 21 Sep 2023 14:26:39 +0000 https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/?p=40365#comment-7442 A beautiful, full of hope and faith account of the cross roads of this nun with others….it is mystic. As Orthodox we read and experience these accounts which bless us and encourage us to keep looking at Christ and not the world…
I am not an ascetic…but believe in prayer. I am married, a retired spec ed teacher who is Orthodox now for 12 gorgeous, trying and victorious years. We attend Holy Myrrhbearers’ Antiochian Orthodox Church in Bonners Ferry, ID where Fr Gregory Horton baptized us both; It was my 4th baptism, my husband’s first. I care for my husband, injured birds and love bugs and flowers. I pray for many around the world too who God puts in my path. We now live back in Montana but still go the HMAOC. Thank you for telling this wonderful story of Nun Mary Magdalene; we share the same name. I have shared her story with many here today and pray she will pray for all of us still struggling on this earth. Amen

]]> By: Laschette Marie-F. https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2023/09/elder-mary-magdalene-a-hermit-from-the-sinai-desert#comment-7438 Sun, 17 Sep 2023 11:17:08 +0000 https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/?p=40365#comment-7438 Very precious and inspiring!
Thanks a lot for sharing.
May she bless us! Mf

]]> By: Lenore R https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2023/09/elder-mary-magdalene-a-hermit-from-the-sinai-desert#comment-7435 Fri, 15 Sep 2023 01:17:36 +0000 https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/?p=40365#comment-7435 So grateful for this special article.

It is truly incredible to hear that there exists in these times, souls who choose to take the narrowest path in faith. The fact that this holy woman who was once an atheist became Christian is a blessed wonder it its own right; but, the fact she chose to venture where few would even consider for her love of God along with her holy desire to dedicate the rest of her life to Him in extreme humility is remarkable. It was her calling to take this holy path; but, it is our Lord who chose her for her special mission to prove God’s work remains alive and in motion.

God bless her holy soul. God bless you for sharing this story with us.

]]> By: Eve https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2023/09/elder-mary-magdalene-a-hermit-from-the-sinai-desert#comment-7434 Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:22:35 +0000 https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/?p=40365#comment-7434 Thank you for sharing! I love articles especially about Orthodox women saints and monastics. Your article was excellent! May Nun Mary Magdalene’s Memory Be Eternal. May she pray for us sinners!

]]> By: Seraphima Berquist https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2023/09/elder-mary-magdalene-a-hermit-from-the-sinai-desert#comment-7433 Wed, 13 Sep 2023 04:55:45 +0000 https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/?p=40365#comment-7433 Thank you for this beautiful and encouraging story of a holy life.

]]> By: Bethan Scotford https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2023/09/elder-mary-magdalene-a-hermit-from-the-sinai-desert#comment-7431 Wed, 13 Sep 2023 02:08:05 +0000 https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/?p=40365#comment-7431 A truly inspirational life, and we are blessed in reading it and contemplating the initial urgings by the Holy Spirit given to men and women chosen by God for the work of praying for the world .All things are possible with God, and learning about holy men and women who dedicated their lives to His prayer for the world is a gift indeed.

]]> By: Kari L Wright https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2023/09/elder-mary-magdalene-a-hermit-from-the-sinai-desert#comment-7430 Tue, 12 Sep 2023 22:58:00 +0000 https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/?p=40365#comment-7430 The story of sister Mary Magdalene is truly formidable and remarkably inspiring. May her memory be eternal!!

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