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Friday December 12 2025, 11H30
Our Lady Of Guadalupe
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On one occasion certain brothers went to Abba Agathon, because they had heard that he took the greatest possible care that his mind should not be disturbed by anything, and they sought to try him, and to see if his mind would rise [to any matter]; and they said to him, 'Are you indeed Agathon? We have heard that you are a whoremonger and a boastful man. 'And Agathon said to them, ' Yes, I am. ' And again they said to him, ' Agathon, you are a garrulous and talkative old man'; and he said to them, ' Indeed I am.' And again they said to him, ' Agathon, you are a heretic'; and he said to them, ' I am not a heretic. ' Then they said unto him, 'Tell us now why in answer to all these things which we have said to you, you have replied, ' Yes, and that you have endured them all with the exception of the accusation of being a heretic.' Abba Agathon said to them, The earlier things I accounted as profitable to my soul, but heresy means separation from God, and I do not wish to be separated from God.' And when the brothers heard [these words] they marvelled at his solicitude, and went away rejoicing.
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