Why are mentally ill people like St. Simeon Stylites considered role models? - girdles bound for women
Saint Simeon Stylites or Symeon the Stylites (ca. 390 - September 2, 459) was a Christian saint, ascetic notoriety because he lived for 37 years on a small platform on a pillar in Syria. Apparently his mother, Martha influences, he developed a zeal for Christianity, at the age of 13 years after a conference of the Beatitudes. Who suffers more rigorous body beginning .... Once passed, began a strict regime for the Lenten season, and was represented by the head of the monastery, visited him some water and bread. A few days later, Simeon, was found unconscious in the water and get bread. When he was brought into the convent, it was discovered that he had tied around the waist by a girdle of palm leaves with such force that the days of immersion is necessary to remove the fibers formed from the wound. In the following three years will be long in a hut, where he eat the whole of Lent without or blocked Dri
Monday, February 8, 2010
Girdles Bound For Women Why Are Mentally Ill People Like St. Simeon Stylites Considered Role Models?
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An example of a clear and obvious mental illness - and not only!
Voluntarily chosen men like St. Simeon has a lifetime of suffering for the sins of the flesh made by others to atone. Practices of penance was as a way to appease the wrath of God Almighty, to save not only their souls to consider, but for the sinners of the world. The excesses of those who love the Left seem absurd to lush softness generation, but that does not mean that we as believers are not expected to suffer.
2. Timothy 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
Today, the Mother of God calls people to repentance and self-denial through his writings in Medjugorje and other apparition sites. If San Simeon believed that his generation has trouble justifying enough to atone for such drastic measures in order to sin, one can imagine what in the world today Tak. It may be required to spend our lives on a column, but requires us to do our part by the patient and the acceptance of prayer, suffering, and can come to us through voluntary acts of selflessness.
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