I beseech you in the name of Jesus the Christ that God may give you
the spirit of discernment…. Prepare yourselves while you have [heavenly]
intercessors to pray to God for your salvation, that He may pour into
your hearts that fire which Jesus came to send upon the earth (Luke
12:49), that you may be able to exercise your hearts and senses, to know
how to discern the good from the bad, the right from the left, reality
from unreality…. Truly, my beloved, you know that when there is a fair
wind, the ship’s captain boasts; but it is in the time of violent
adverse winds that every skilled captain is revealed. (Letter III)
~St Anthony the Great
From Christ in our Midst
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