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Friday November 22 2024, 03H23
Cæcilia, V. Mart. 3 lect.
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One of the old men used to say: 'We were going [on one occasion] to the mountain of the blessed Anthony to visit Abba Sisoes, and when he sat down to eat there came up to us a young man who begged for alms; and when we were beginning to eat, the old man said, ' Ask that young man if he wishes to come in and eat with us.' Now when one had said this to him, the young man refused [to do so], and the old man said, ' Let whatsoever is left over by us be given to him to eat outside.' Then the old man brought out a jar of wine which he kept for the Offering, and he mixed for each one of us a cup, but he gave to the young man two cups, whereat I smiled, and said to him, ' I also will go outside, and you will give me two cups of wine also.' Abba Sisoes said, ' If he had eaten with us he would have drunk the same quantity as ourselves, and he would have been convinced that we did not drink more than he did; but now he will say in his mind, These monks enjoy themselves more than I do. It is good therefore that our conscience should not hold us in contempt.''
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