{"id":32845,"date":"2022-10-30T17:32:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T17:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.learnetd.com\/teachers\/?page_id=32845"},"modified":"2023-03-02T19:23:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T19:23:09","slug":"syncletica","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/teacher-courses\/tertiary-drama\/spiritual\/syncletica\/","title":{"rendered":"Syncletica"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Saint Syncletica of Alexandria 280 - 350<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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She was a\u00a0Desert Mother\u00a0from\u00a0Roman Egypt in the 4th century.<\/span><\/p>

Her name, Syncletica, is derived from the Greek meaning \u201cheavenly assembly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

She was of a wealthy background and is reputed to have been very beautiful. From childhood, however, she was drawn to dedicate her life to God.<\/p>

From the time she took responsibility for her family’s affairs, after her parents’ deaths, she gave to the poor all that had been left to her. With her younger blind sister, Syncletica abandoned the life of the city and instead resided in a crypt, thus adopting a\u00a0hermetic\u00a0lifestyle. Her holy life soon gained the attention of locals and, gradually, many women joined her to live as her disciples<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The true desert is within as Amma Syncletica remarked with very feminine sagacity:<\/p>

Many live on the mountains and behave as if they were living amidst the uproar of a city, and they are lost. It is possible while living amongst a crowd to be inwardly\u00a0 solitary and while living alone\u00a0 to be inwardly beset by the crowd.<\/em><\/p>

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A treasure is secure so long as it remains concealed; but when once disclosed, and laid open to every bold invader, it is presently rifled; so virtue also vanishes once it is known and made public. Just as wax melts in the presence of fire, so also does the soul disintegrate in the face of praises and lose its vigour.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShe was hesitant to share publicly what she practiced privately, knowing that intimacy with Christ is a serious matter. Only after being pressed by those that came to her did she begin to teach the way she had come to know Christ in solitude. She was convinced that teaching without experience would lack substance.

\n\u201cIt is dangerous for someone not formed by experience of the ascetic life to try to teach; it is as if someone whose house is unsound were to receive guests and cause them injury by the collapse of the building. It is the same in the case of someone who has not first built an interior dwelling; he causes loss to those who come.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShe fasted, prayed, and practiced solitude all towards this end as a young woman. Fasting to her was a fulfillment of 2 Corinthians 4:16, \u201cAs our outer person perishes, so our inner person is being renewed.\u201d<\/em>

Fasting starved the carnal nature of the flesh while feeding the inner man the virtue of temperance.\n\nFasting and prayer enabled her to keep\u2026\n\u201d\u2026careful watch over the first impulses of her soul, not allowing them to be led astray by physical passions.\u201d<\/em>

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\nDeterminism was alive and well in her day and age. She chastised those who would blame God for their sinful inclinations.\n\u201cIf, then, they say that God is first, it will necessarily follow that everything has its origin in him; and, in fact, he is present in all. He is, therefore, himself the Lord of Destiny. If, moreover, one is greedy or lustful as a result of his destiny-at-birth, God is necessarily the cause of evil.\u201d<\/em>

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In her day, certain women were considered oracles in the pagan world. They were known for their ecstatic prophecies and generally amassed a significant following. Regarding the truth of their \u201cprophetic utterances\u201d she said,<\/p>

\u201cJust as some uneducated people and sailors have a kind of a hazy knowledge of winds or rainstorms from the character of the clouds, so also these people have a confused foreknowledge from demons. Actually they make some prophecies by guesswork, as also do mediums.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>

There is a certain prognostication utilized by psychic mediums influenced by demonic forces. Their foretelling is, at best, guess work. God alone knows the future, Scripture makes that abundantly clear.<\/p>

To her, vulnerability was of more worth than reputation.<\/p>

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Richard Rohr and Mary Earle quote from The Life of Blessed Syncletica:

If you find yourself in a monastery do not go to another place, for that will harm you a great deal. Just as the bird who abandons the eggs she was sitting on prevents them from hatching, so the monk or the nun grows cold and their faith dies, when they go from one place to another.<\/em>


Amma Syncletica is counseling us to not run from ourselves. She is encouraging us to stay faithfully with whatever new life is being hatched within us\u2026.
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In the desert, men and women were counseled, \u201cGo to your cell and your cell will teach you everything.\u201d\u00a0 \u2026 The cell was a sacred space, a place in which a woman could be with herself and the divine Presence and listen.\u00a0 immersed in God\u2019s presence.<\/p>


The wisdom of the desert tempers our instinct to avoid boredom and discomfort:<\/em><\/p>

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Amma Syncletica\u2019s bird metaphor speaks directly to one of the dilemmas of the spiritual life\u2014that of coming to terms with the plain old ordinariness of spiritual practice and the life of prayer, of the whole of life becoming prayer\u2026. We are enticed by a variety of means to leave our \u201ceggs\u201d and simply move continually from one interest to another. The result is that we don\u2019t allow ourselves the opportunity to bring forth new life. The \u201ceggs\u201d die because they are not tended. We miss the deeper life of the Spirit because we are constantly moving from one interest to another rather than focusing on one thing.<\/p>

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\n\nStaying in the cell, or \u201csitting on the eggs,\u201d means noticing our appetite for overstimulation.

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