Feast Day: June 7th
The Life of Saint Daniel: Daniel was left the tunic, hair shirt and sandals of his Elder Saint Arsenios the Great upon his repose, saying, “And I the unworthy wear them that I may receive a blessing.”…
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Prayers
Saint Daniel Pray to God for us.
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“The body prospers in the measure in which the Soul is weakened, and the Soul prospers in the measure in which the body is weakened.”
“At Babylon the daughter of an important person was possessed by a devil. A Monk for whom her father had a great affection said to him, ‘No-one can heal your daughter except some Anchorites whom I know; but if you ask them to do so, they will not agree because of their humility. Let us therefore do this: when they come to the market, look as though you want to buy their goods and when they come to receive the price, we will ask them to say a Prayer and I believe she will be healed.’ When they came to the market they found a disciple of the old men setting there selling their goods and they led him away with the baskets, so that he should receive the price of them. But when the Monk reached the house, the woman possessed with the devil came and slapped him. But he only turned the other cheek, according to the Lord’s Command (Matt. 5.39). The devil, tortured by this, cried out, ‘What violence! The Commandment of Jesus drives me out.’ Immediately the woman was cleansed. When the old men came, they told them what had happened and they Glorified God saying, ‘This is how the pride of the devil is brought low, through the humility of the Commandment of Christ.'”
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One day Abba Daniel and Abba Ammoes went on a journey together. Abba Ammoes said, ‘When shall we, too, settle down, in a cell, Father?’ Abba Daniel replied, ‘Who shall separate us henceforth from God? God is in the cell, and, on the other hand, he is outside also!’
It was said concerning Abba Daniel, that when the barbarians invaded Scetis and the Fathers fled away, the old man said, ‘If God does not care for me, why still live?’ Then he passed through the midst of the barbarians without being seen. He said to himself therefore, ‘See how God has cared for me, since I am not dead. Now I will do that which is human and flee with the Fathers.’
A brother asked Abba Daniel, ‘Give me a commandment and I will keep it.’ He replied, ‘Never put your hand in the dish with a woman, and never eat with her; thus you will escape a little the demon of fornication.’
Abba Daniel said that when Abba Arsenios was at Scetis, there was a Monk there who used to steal the possessions of the old men. Abba Arsenios took him into his cell in order to convert him and to give the old men some peace. He said to him, ‘Everything you want I will get for you, only do not steal.’ So he gave him gold, coins, clothes and everything he needed. But the brother began to steal again. So the old men, seeing that he had not stopped, drove him away saying, ‘If there is a brother who commits a sin through weakness, one must bear it, but if he steals, drive him away, for it is hurtful to his Soul and troubles all those who live in the neighbourhood.’