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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Anthony
DESCRIPTION:HE KEPT HIS HEART WATCHFUL \nFrom the writing of Nikiphorus the monk4 \n◊◊◊ \nOnce two brothers were on their way to visit St Antony\, but on the journey \ntheir water gave out and one of them died and the other was near to dying. \nUnable to go any further\, he too lay down on the ground and awaited death. But \nAntony\, seated on the mountain\, called two monks who happened to be with \nhim and said to them urgently\, ‘Take a jar of water and go as fast as you can \nalong the road leading to Egypt: two men were on their way here\, but one has \njust died and the other will also die if you don’t hurry. This was revealed to me \nas I was praying.’ \nThe monks set off; and finding the one man dead they buried him\, while \nthey revived the other with water and brought him to the elder. It was about a \nday’s journey off. Should you ask why Antony did not speak before the first man \ndied\, I would say that the question is inapt: the decision about death rested not \nwith Antony but with God\, and He allowed the first man to die and sent a \nrevelation to St Antony about the second. The miracle happened to St Antony\, \nand to him alone\, because while seated on the mountain he kept \nhis heart watchful\, and so the Lord showed him what was happening a long way \noff. \nDo you see how through watchfulness of heart St Antony was able to \nperceive God…? For it is in the heart that God manifests Himself to \nthe intellect…as fire that purifies the lover and then as light that illumines \nthe intellect and renders it godlike. \nWe cannot be reconciled with God and assimilated to Him unless we \nfirst…enter into ourselves\, in so far as this lies within our power. For the miracle \nconsists in tearing ourselves away from the distraction and vain concerns of the \nworld and in this way relentlessly seizing hold of the kingdom of heaven within \nus \n4 https://orthodoxchurchfathers.com/fathers/philokalia/nikiphoros-the-monk-from-the-life-of-our-holy-father- \nantony.html. Accessed: Jan. 11\, 2024.9 \n 
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-st-anthony-2/
CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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