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SUMMARY:Vigils: St. Pachomius
DESCRIPTION:OUR RIGHTEOUS\nFATHER PACHOMIUS\nFrom “The Life of Pachomius” 5\n◊◊◊\nTheodore began to tell the brothers of the life of our father Pachomius from his childhood on and of all the labors he underwent from the beginning when he established the holy Koinonia. He told them of the temptations of demons and how he snatched away from them the souls which the Lord gave him and of the revelations which the Lord disclosed to him. And he told them everything he had heard from that saint’s mouth as well as those things he had seen with his own eyes. \nHe spoke to them as follows:\n‘Listen to me\, my brothers\, and understand well the things I am telling you. For the man whom we are exalting is truly the father of us all after God. God established a covenant with him to save a great many souls by means of him. And us also the Lord has saved through his holy prayers… Our righteous father Pachomius – is also one of the holy people of God and one who did his will always and everywhere. I am fearful that we may forget his labors and actually be unmindful of who it was who made this multitude one spirit and one body. It was accomplished by means of him and of our other holy fathers who aided him in the establishment of this holy institution. We believe that the blessing of our father will remain with us and with those who come after us before God forever. Now then\, let us not be negligent and forget his laws and his commandments\, which he gave us while he was still with us in the body.’ \n‘Pachomius pursued in its entirety the way of life of the prophets and the way of service in which\, according to the Gospel\, our Lord walked. He was without blame before all\, as you yourselves bear witness. You are also not unaware how he used to teach us frequently with tears\, as Paul said in the book of the Acts of those whom he was teaching. You know how he used to gather us together daily and speak to us about the holy commandments so that we might observe each of the commandments in the holy Scriptures of Christ\, and how he used first to put them into practice before giving them to us. \nIt is through our contact with such a righteous man that we have learned the will of God even in such details as the manner of stretching our hands upward to the Lord and how one should pray to God. It is he who taught it to us. Is it not right for us to bless him next after the Lord who created us? Indeed\, did God not say to Abraham\, who had done his will\, I will bless him who blesses you and I will curse him who curses you? Now then\, my brothers\, let us all say\, “Blessed be God and our righteous father Pachomius who through the labors of his prayers has become for us a guide to eternal life”‘. \n5\nPachomian Koinonia\, Vol One\, Trans.\, Armand Veilleux\, Kalamazoo\, 1980; pp 237-8.
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