Repost of Episode 552
In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Father’s Day series on Monastic Parental Wisdom using selections from The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers translated by Henry L. Carrigan, Jr. with a saying of Agathon.
The old man replied, “Humankind is like a tree; bodily asceticism is the leaves, interior watchfulness the fruit….All our care should be directed toward the fruit, but it needs the protection and the adornment of the leaves, which is bodily asceticism.”
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