Excellent. One of my favorite sayings from the Desert Fathers: "A monk looking for some guidance and encouragement went to Abba Sisoës and asked: 'What am I to do since I have fallen?' The Abba replied 'Get up' 'I did get up but I fell again.' 'Get up again.' 'I did, but I must admit that I fell once again. What should I do?' “Do not fall down without getting back up”.
Thought it was a nice quote, looked it up, but apparently it goes like this: A brother asked Abba Sisoes, 'What shall I do, abba, for I have fallen?' The old man said to him, 'Get up again.' The brother said, 'I have got up again, but I have fallen again.' The old man said, 'Get up again and again.' So then the brother said, 'How many times?' The old man said, 'Until you are taken up either in virtue or in sin. For a man presents himself to judgement in the state in which he is found.'
@@feeble_stirrings That's odd, I cited from "The Sayings of the Desert Fathers" published by Cistercian Publications, but this also uses the translation of Benedicta Ward 🤔
A channel that provides videos containing spiritual nourishment and historical information… as a Catholic, I could not be more grateful. God’s blessings on you both my brothers in Christ. 🙏🏼💕
I love the Sayings of the Desert Fathers, especially the Holy and Venerable Anthony of Egypt!! "I saw the snares of the Devil. Laid out upon the ground, and I said Who can flee from these? An angel said to me:humility.
Sadly no... I was raised Protestant so we don't learn about these things. Saints in my eyes until very recently was heretical as I was told that the Orthodox worship them. It was only through this channel that I learned that that is not the truth.
Some of most simple yet profound sayings are from the Desert Fathers. Some of my favorites. Alongside that, lemon grass tea is one of my all time favorite teas...so refreshing Great channel, brother!
Two of my favourite Desert Fathers (first among equals) are abba Dorotheus of Gaza and St Hilarion the Great... I strive to read discourses of abba Dorotheus at least once in a year, and each time there's something refreshing and new.
All through the video, Saint Christopher, the dog headed man, or giant, monster nonetheless, kept coming up to mind. An illiterate, humble man who could not even pray, but who, thanks to his exceptional physique and strength, was attended to crossing people over perilous waters, and ended up being the one crossing our Lord to the other side. Que Dieu vous bénisse!
