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The Life of St Mary of Egypt. (Great reading for Lent).

HamletOrHecuba · 2012-02-19 23:29:25

St Mary was a nymphomaniac who after being brought to repentance after being supernaturally stopped from entering a Church, after receiving Communion fled into the desert to plead for mercy which she richly received. "And they that are Christ's, have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences." Galatians…

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St Mary was a nymphomaniac who after being brought to repentance after being supernaturally stopped from entering a Church, after receiving Communion fled into the desert to plead for mercy which she richly received.

"And they that are Christ's, have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences."

Galatians 5:24.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/maryegypt.asp

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http://www.vitae-patrum.org.uk/page46.html

The Life of St Pelagia the harlot is also a very moving history that shows that no one is beyond the reach of God's mercy and that however depraved we have been we can still reach the heights of holiness.

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