OrthodoxFathers.org » Site News http://orthodoxfathers.org Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:44:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 On the subject of Discernment http://orthodoxfathers.org/on-the-subject-of-discernment-3.htm http://orthodoxfathers.org/on-the-subject-of-discernment-3.htm#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:51:05 +0000 Administrator http://orthodoxfathers.org/on-the-subject-of-discernment-3.htm A brother said to a great old man, “Abba, I wan to find an old man to my liking and die with him.” And the old man said to him, “My lord, much good may your search do you!” But the brother was profoundly convinced that it really was good, and did not ponder the old man’s saying. When the old man saw that he thought he was really looking for something good, he said to him, “if you find an old man after your own mind,will you stay with him?” The other said, “Yes, altogether, if I find him to my liking.” The old man said to him, “perhaps it is not that you will follow the old man’s will, but that he will follow yours, that will give you peace?” The the brother arose, realizing what he said, bowed before him and said, “Forgive me, I was conceited thinking I had said something good when it was actually nothing.”

Originally posted 2009-11-18 14:35:37.

]]> http://orthodoxfathers.org/on-the-subject-of-discernment-3.htm/feed 0 On the Subject of Discernment http://orthodoxfathers.org/on-the-subject-of-discernment-4.htm http://orthodoxfathers.org/on-the-subject-of-discernment-4.htm#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:50:31 +0000 Administrator http://orthodoxfathers.org/on-the-subject-of-discernment-4.htm An old man was asked, “What is the straight and narrow way?” He replied, “The straight way is this, to do violence to one’s thoughts and to cut off one’s own will. That is what this means: “Behold we have left all and followed thee.” (Mark 10:28)

Originally posted 2009-11-18 14:37:05.

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Originally posted 2009-11-03 21:29:11.

]]> http://orthodoxfathers.org/what-is-true-knowledgewisdom.htm/feed 0 On the subject of Discernment http://orthodoxfathers.org/on-the-subject-of-discernment-2.htm http://orthodoxfathers.org/on-the-subject-of-discernment-2.htm#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:46:41 +0000 Administrator http://orthodoxfathers.org/on-the-subject-of-discernment-2.htm A brother who had withdrawn and taken the habit shut himself up immediately, saying, “I am an anchorite.’ When they heard him say this, the old men came to drive him away and made him go the round of all the brethern’s cells, bowing before them and saying, “forgive me, for I am not an anchorite, but a beginner.”

Originally posted 2009-11-18 14:30:30.

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