On Compassion…

October 17, 2012 Leave a comment

Abba Theodore of Pherme asked Abba Pambo, ‘Give me a word to live by.’ And with great reluctance he said to him, ‘Go, Theodore and have compassion on all. Compassion allows us to speak freely to God.’

 - Sayings of the Desert Fathers

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About Fr Stephen Smuts
TAC Priest in South Africa.

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