Father Matta el Maskine , the Coptic Church , fell asleep in the Lord June 8, 2006 at the age of 87. He was buried in a cave dug into the rock away from the monastery, according to his will. Monk since 1948, abbot in 1954, he was ordained priest in 1951. In 1969 he was appointed head of the monastery St. Macarius in the Wadi El Natron (Egypt). Abbot Matta El Maskine monk, ascetic and scholar was the spiritual father for 37 years.
True prayer, in which we have access to God and speak in his presence, is not a simple human act. It is essentially a divine invitation that we're just responding. God is always and at all times ready to receive us and continues to invite us to come toward him
"All day long I stretched hands," Rm 10.21 ... "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" Mt 11.28. " Whoever comes to me, I do not throw out" Jn 6.37 . For God welcomes me with him, and possibly permanently. When we stand before God in his presence, we realize it the return of exiled creature in the bosom of his Creator, like the return of Adam into Paradise.
So prayer is, in itself, a repair of long hours spent away from God among the concerns Earth and the cares of earthly life, Lk 21.37. In itself, represents a return of prayer to God, a true conversion. Long ago, God expelled Adam from his presence, and here are calling us constantly, "all day" to come into his presence and stay with him. Once we got to him through prayer, God desires that we would emerge again. Also true prayer, which managed to respond to God's loving desire to keep it secretly at heart, a wordless exchange, after we left the place of prayer. We will then our various occupations, while the prayer continues to continue his secret work within our hearts.
Tips prayer by Father Matta El-Maskine the Monastery of St. Macarius in the desert ScétéWadi el NatrounTraduction French published in the journal Irénikon , 1986 pp 451-481
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