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Thursday February 26 2026, 13H40
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A brother asked Abba Poemen, saying, 'What will I do with the weight of weariness which holds me?' And the old man said to him, 'Both large and small boats are provided with thick ropes for towing, and if there be blowing a wind which is not favourable to the course of the ship, they throw them round their breasts and pull them along [from] dry land; and quietly and little by little they let the ship go on her way until God sends a wind which is suitable for bearing her along where so ever they wish her to go. But if they learn that a storm has begun to rise, they make haste and drive a stake in the ground, and tie up the ship lest she should drift away. Now the stake is that a man should condemn himself.'
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