WE ARE HIS CHILDREN AND

WE ABIDE IN HIM
ST. ABBA HOOR - SYNEXARIUM 4
BAOUNA

THE RECAP
 WHAT IS A MONK?

• A monk is a person who loves God so much

• he spends the rest of his life with God because of

his great love for him

• He leaves the world and all worldly things, and

lives in a monastery to pray and worship God
 WHAT IS MONASTICISM?

• Monasticism is just one of the ways to live with God

• For someone, that could be monasticism, but for another, it could be marriage
• Consecration is also an option: Consecration is to dedicate one’s life to serve God.
Consecration could be without marriage, in which the person dedicates all their life for
the service or with marriage, serving God along with their family.
• Roles in Monasticism:
• prayer is the primary role of monks and nuns.
• they preserve the faith and the doctrine
• some monks become Patriarchs and Bishops who are ordained to shepherd the
people.
 THE LIFE OF ABBA HOOR

• We learn about the life of St. Abba Hoor, he was born to a

Christian family in the city of Bahgour in Kena.
• His father, John and his mother, Sophia, raised him and his
younger sister, Eriny, in the fear of God.
• His father wanted him to learn about the church teachings
since his youth and assigned a deacon to teach him
• He longed to devote himself to live with the Lord and desired
the monastic life
 LIFE OF ABBA HOOR

• When Abba Hoor was 14 years old, his father died. After
some time, his mother also died.
• Abba Hoor stayed with his sister until she got married.
Afterwards, he decided to follow the monastic life. He left
all his possessions and went to the wilderness of Shiheet in
Wady El Natroun.
• He stayed with a saint monk called Ghalinokos when he
first arrived to the dessert
 LIFE OF ABBA HOOR

• St. Ghalinokos ordained him as a

monk and put on him the holy
Eskeem (A piece of leather
trimmed and adorned with
crosses).
• He stayed with St. Ghalinokos
until his departure and learned
from him.
 LIFE OF ABBA HOOR

• An angel had appeared to abba hoor more than one

• First time: after the departure of his teacher. He told
him to go to a place called the mount of El-Amoud
(where his monastry is located) to continue his
spiritual journey.
• He became the spiritual father to many monks
including Abba Phis and Abba Babnouda.
 LIFE OF ABBA HOOR

• One of the miracles that was performed through

the prayers of Abba Hoor was the healing of the
queen, the wife of King Theodosius the Great, after
her repentance and confession.

• In most icons of Abba Hoor it shows a bottle of oil

in his hand that comes from this moment
 LIFE OF ABBA HOOR

• When Abba Hoor fell sick. He gathered

all the monks around him and told
them that he will depart after 8 days.
He asked them to keep the body of his
disciple St. Babnouda beside his body.
• He departed in peace on the 4th day. of
the month of Baouna.