OrthodoxFathers.org » Saint Peomen http://orthodoxfathers.org Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:44:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 True Repentance http://orthodoxfathers.org/true-repentance.htm http://orthodoxfathers.org/true-repentance.htm#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:50:54 +0000 Administrator http://theholyfathers.org/?p=207 A brother questioned Abba Poemen, 'My thoughts trouble me, making me put my sins aside, and concern myself with my brother's faults'. Abba Peomen told him the following story about Abba Dioscorus. 'In his cell he wept and wept over himself, while his disciple was sitting in another cell. When the latter came to see him, he asked him, "Father, why are you weeping?" "I am weeping over my sins," he answered him. Then his disciple said, "You do not have any sins, Father." Abba replied, "Truly, my child, if I were allowed to see my sins, three or four men would not be enough to weep for them."

Originally posted 2006-10-09 13:24:55.

]]> http://orthodoxfathers.org/true-repentance.htm/feed 0 Silence http://orthodoxfathers.org/silence.htm http://orthodoxfathers.org/silence.htm#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:49:12 +0000 Administrator http://theholyfathers.org/?p=14 A man may seem to be silent, but if his heart is condemning others, he is babbling ceaselessly. But there may be another who talks from morning till night and yet he is truly silent, that is, he says nothing that is not profitable.

Originally posted 2006-04-17 19:52:57.

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