✞✞✞Abba Abracius (Apraxios) the Monastic✞✞✞
=>Our fathers call this Saint as “A Powerful Monk”. After entering the desert at the age of 20, he struggled for 70 years and reached the age of 90 years. And he removed Satan from where he struggled after vexing him much.✞Satan because he was not able to make the Saint fall, began a new way to try him so that he would decrease from his fast, prayer and prostrations. He then approached the father and said, “Abracius (Apraxios) you have become weary. But you still have 50 more years to live”.
✞However, the Saint replied to the Satan, “You sadden me! I thought I had 100 more years and was fighting in small amounts. If that is the case, I will double upon the fast, prayer and prostrations.” Thus, Satan left humiliated. Nevertheless, Saint Abracius (Apraxios) departed in the same year at the age of 90 years.
✞✞✞May the God of Fathers preserve us in their perseverance. And may He grant us from their blessings.
✞✞✞ Annual feasts celebrated on the 13th of Tahisas
1. Abune Zera Biruk the Righteous
2. St. Macarius the Monastic
3. Abba Abracius (Apraxios)
4. Blessed Hannah (Anna) the Mother of our Lady
5. Abba Barsanuphius the Martyr
6. Abba Misael (Michael) of Qalamun
✞✞✞ Monthly Feasts
1. God the Father
2. St. Raphael the Archangel
3. The 99 Hosts of Angels
4. St. Arsanius the Wise Monastic
5. St. Askanafer
6. The 13 Spirit-borne (“Gehusan”/”Sowah”) Fathers
✞✞✞“He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.”✞✞✞
Matt. 10:41-42
✞✞✞ Salutations to God ✞✞✞
(Translated by Mhr. Esuendale Shemeles with the permission of Dn. Yordanos Abebe)
=>Our fathers call this Saint as “A Powerful Monk”. After entering the desert at the age of 20, he struggled for 70 years and reached the age of 90 years. And he removed Satan from where he struggled after vexing him much.✞Satan because he was not able to make the Saint fall, began a new way to try him so that he would decrease from his fast, prayer and prostrations. He then approached the father and said, “Abracius (Apraxios) you have become weary. But you still have 50 more years to live”.
✞However, the Saint replied to the Satan, “You sadden me! I thought I had 100 more years and was fighting in small amounts. If that is the case, I will double upon the fast, prayer and prostrations.” Thus, Satan left humiliated. Nevertheless, Saint Abracius (Apraxios) departed in the same year at the age of 90 years.
✞✞✞May the God of Fathers preserve us in their perseverance. And may He grant us from their blessings.
✞✞✞ Annual feasts celebrated on the 13th of Tahisas
1. Abune Zera Biruk the Righteous
2. St. Macarius the Monastic
3. Abba Abracius (Apraxios)
4. Blessed Hannah (Anna) the Mother of our Lady
5. Abba Barsanuphius the Martyr
6. Abba Misael (Michael) of Qalamun
✞✞✞ Monthly Feasts
1. God the Father
2. St. Raphael the Archangel
3. The 99 Hosts of Angels
4. St. Arsanius the Wise Monastic
5. St. Askanafer
6. The 13 Spirit-borne (“Gehusan”/”Sowah”) Fathers
✞✞✞“He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.”✞✞✞
Matt. 10:41-42
✞✞✞ Salutations to God ✞✞✞
(Translated by Mhr. Esuendale Shemeles with the permission of Dn. Yordanos Abebe)