SAINT KARAS THE ANCHORITE features significantly in the contemplative life of the Egyptian Desert Fathers for his depth of interior silence, his lengthy life of fifty-seven years in solitude, how Christ visited and spoke with him every afternoon and how our Lord took Saint Karas alive into heaven on the day of his death, July 15, 465 A.D.
This was the day after the death of the equally famous St. Shenouda the Archimandrite, whose departure St. Karas discerned in spirit from his cave in the Scetis Desert (between Cairo and Alexandria).
The idea for naming this Guest Cottage in honour of St. Karas emerged from our desire in St. Enoch and St. Elijah Monastery to tell the story of this hermit Desert Father and how Christ honoured his simplicity and purity of heart. We pray for each of our guests in this Guest Cottage that they receive the optimum measure of faith, purity of heart and intimacy with God that comprise the holy interior of silence and all its contribution to one’s union with the will of God within.
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