Mrs Maria Gerges Fanous, who resides at 1 Malak Shahata St, Al-Andalos/Al-Marg relates: I used to suffer from tonsillitis every three months. Each time I would have a high fever and a terrible sore throat in addition to pain in my legs and all over my body. Despite my suffering every winter and the urgency of undergoing surgery since I was a child in grade four, I avoided the operation out of fear.
Category: Mother Erene
The dying nun who became worried about her eternal destiny
In September 1999, our beloved sister Mother Anasimon (consecrated as a nun in 1970) was in the last stages of her illness. She was suffering from cancer, but continued to live a life of thankfulness and total surrender to her Saviour. In the course of the last year of her life, she underwent four consecutive operations. They were followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapy in order to remove the tumours from her body, a process that entailed great pain.
Mother Erene’s passion for praising and church hymnology
Our Mother’s passion for the Church hymns was remarkable. She knew them all by heart. When we learn that there are about 150 important hymns, in addition to countless short ones, we realise how much she loved them and was able to understand and absorb the minute details of their different tunes. Each hymn or chant has its own rhythm and deep special meanings. Each one is intended to evoke its own sublime and inimitable spiritual effect; for its music is “entirely divested of every earthly sensation."
We can’t be holy and spiritual, yet avoid confession and communion
The Lord of Glory told me, "William, it is true that you act according to the commandments, but you do not confess your sins; nor do you receive Communion. You do not take My flesh. and blood. How can you have companionship with Me? Did not I say in Scripture, "unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you" (John 6: 53).
Fervently love all, even red-handedly caught sinners!
And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.” (1 Peter 4:8)One of the nuns of the convent of St Abu Seifein relate: Mother Erene, together with her dear friend, the great Martyr Abu Seifein, protects the convent. I will tell you an incident that happened at the end of one day, as I heard… Continue reading Fervently love all, even red-handedly caught sinners!
7 points of spiritual instructions by Mother Erene (Part IV)
With God we find peaceWith God and in God we find peace and joy. Sometimes, a person can be an enemy of himself when he is not at peace and is always upset and grumbling. He has no peace or love with God, so he sins and is consequently not at peace with his brothers… Continue reading 7 points of spiritual instructions by Mother Erene (Part IV)
Don’t judge others based off incomplete information
Mrs. Sh. S. N. said: During the 1980s, when I was fifteen, I first heard from some of my relatives about the miracles that God had performed through the prayers of the Martyr Abi Seifein. They also told me about the Abbess of his community, Mother Erene.
How Mother Erene was miraculously saved from a knife attack
Mother Erene relates: One day, not long after I had arrived in Krair, the nun in charge told me me that the guard on the north side urgently wanted to see me. I asked her to show him into the reception room and to serve him tea.
Lord of Glory: “She can put up with this tribulation, let her take more reward. I console her in other times.”
Indeed great is the Your power O God, and great are You in Your saints. Mother Erene saved our life and took us out of a deep pit. She saved us from great pains and complete darkness with the power of heaven. Thus the light of God shone upon us and defeated the powers of evil. I will tell you how God had mercy upon us and saved our daughter (Y.N.F) and restored to me, her father and the whole family, peace and joy after having lost the hope of seeing our daughter in a normal condition.
10 points of spiritual instructions by Mother Erene (Part III)
The Fathers (ancient saints) teach us how to unite to GodThe Fathers are like a living bible that has been put into practice and written with blood and struggle. We find in them both a book and a spirit; therefore walking in their way is a good foundation from which we drink and reach our… Continue reading 10 points of spiritual instructions by Mother Erene (Part III)
The Art of Orthodoxy 