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SUMMARY:St. Pachomius
DESCRIPTION:OUR RIGHTEOUS FATHER PACHOMIUS\nFrom “The Life of Pachomius” 4\n◊◊◊\nTheodore began to tell the brothers of the life of our father Pachomius\nfrom his childhood on and of all the labors he underwent from the beginning\nwhen he established the holy Koinonia. He told them of the temptations of\ndemons and how he snatched away from them the souls which the Lord gave\nhim and of the revelations which the Lord disclosed to him. And he told them\neverything he had heard from that saint’s mouth as well as those things he had\nseen with his own eyes. \nHe spoke to them as follows:\n‘Listen to me\, my brothers\, and understand well the things I am telling\nyou. For the man whom we are exalting is truly the father of us all after God.\nGod established a covenant with him to save a great many souls by means of\nhim. And us also the Lord has saved through his holy prayers. For he — I am\nspeaking of our righteous father Pachomius–is also one of the holy people of\nGod and one who did his will always and everywhere. I am fearful that we may\nforget his labors and actually be unmindful of who it was who made this\nmultitude one spirit and one body. It was accomplished by means of him and\nof our other holy fathers who aided him in the establishment of this holy\ninstitution. We believe that the blessing of our father will remain with us and\nwith those who come after us before God forever. Now then\, let us not be\nnegligent and forget his laws and his commandments\, which he gave us while\nhe was still with us in the body.’ \n‘Pachomius pursued in its entirety the way of life of the prophets and the\nway of service in which\, according to the Gospel\, our Lord walked. He was\nwithout blame before all\, as you yourselves bear witness. You are also not\nunaware how he used to teach us frequently with tears\, as Paul said in the book\nof the Acts of those whom he was teaching. You know how he used to gather us\ntogether daily and speak to us about the holy commandments so that we might\nobserve each of the commandments in the holy Scriptures of Christ\, and how\nhe used first to put them into practice before giving them to us. It is through\nour contact with such a righteous man that we have learned the will of God even\nin such details as the manner of stretching our hands upward to the Lord and\nhow one should pray to God. It is he who taught it to us. Is it not right for us to\nbless him next after the Lord who created us? Indeed\, did God not say to\nAbraham\, who had done his will\, I will bless him who blesses you and I will\ncurse him who curses you? Now then\, my brothers\, let us all say\, “Blessed be\nGod and our righteous father Pachomius who through the labors of his\nprayers has become for us a guide to eternal life”‘. \n4 Pachomian Koinonia\, Vol One\, Trans.\, Armand Veilleux\, Kalamazoo\, 1980; pp 237-8.
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