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Sayings of the Desert Fathers.

buy you a drank lyrics Abbot Pambo questioned Abbot Anthony saying: What ought I to do?  And the elder replied: Have no confidence in your own virtuousness.  Do not worry about a thing once it has been done.  Control your tongue and your belly.

http://sunsationalhomeimprovement.com/helpful-tips-winterize-patio/ An elder said: The reason why we do not get anywhere is that we do not know our limits, and we are not patient in carrying out the work we have begun.  But without any labor at all we want to gain possession of virtue.

A certain brother came to Abbot Silvanus at Mount Sinai, and seeing the hermits at work he exclaimed: Why do you work for the bread that perisheth?  Mary has chosen the best part, namely to sit at the feet of the Lord without working.  Then the Abbot said to his disciple Zachary: Give the brother a book and let him read, and put him in an empty cell.  At the ninth hour the brother who was reading began to look out to see if the Abbot was not going to call him to dinner, and sometime after the ninth hour he went himself to the Abbot and said: Did the brethren not eat today, Father?  Oh yes, certainly, said the Abbot, they just had dinner.  Well, said the brother, why did you not call me?  You are a spiritual man, said the elder, you don’t need this food that perisheth.  You read all day, and can get along without food.  Hearing this the brother said: Forgive me, Father.  And the elder said: Martha is necessary to Mary, for it was because Martha worked that Mary was able to be praised.

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