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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Getting Up Again and Again





A brother monk  asked Abba Sisoes, 'I have fallen, Abba; what shall I do?'

Abba Sisoes, said to him, 'Get up again.'

The brother said, 'I have gotten up again, but again have I fallen.'

The  Abba said, 'Get up again and again.'

So the brother asked, 'How many times?'

The Abba  replied, 'Until you are taken up either in virtue or in sin.  For a man        presents himself to judgment, in that state in which he is found.'



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