Carbon-Based Spiritual Technologies…
My Episcopal paper pocket calendar includes two commemorations and a Jewish holiday for January 17 2022.
(So simple and handy-I highly recommend this carbon-based technology for organizing your time and commitments.)
So, here are some quotes from St. Antony of Egypt, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and tree pictures, in honor of TuB’Shevat, the Jewish new year of the trees.
You can chew on them as your work, pray and go about your life of loving god and your neighbor as yourself in the coming weeks.
Machs gut.
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“You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh’s court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery. When the slaves get together, that’s the beginning of getting out of slavery.”
—“I’ve Been to the Mountain Top” (1968)
“History ha[s]…taught… it is not enough for people to be angry—the supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.”
—“Honoring Dr. Du Bois” (1968)
“The dispossessed of this nation — the poor, both white and Negro — live in a cruelly unjust society. They must organize a revolution against the injustice, not against the lives of the persons who are their fellow citizens, but against the structures through which the society is refusing to take means which have been called for, and which are at hand, to lift the load of poverty…There are millions of poor people in this country who have very little, or even nothing, to lose. If they can be helped to take action together, they will do so with a freedom and a power that will be a new and unsettling force in our complacent national life…”
—Massey Lectures (1967)
https://kairoscenter.org/quotes-from-rev-dr-kings-last-years/
3. Someone asked Abba Anthony, “What must one do in order to please God?”
The old man replied, “Pay attention to what I tell you: whoever you may be, always have God before your eyes, whatever you do, do it according to the testimony of the holy Scriptures; in whatever place you live, do not easily leave it. Keep these three precepts and you will be saved.”
13. A hunter in the desert saw Abba Anthony enjoying himself with the brethren and he was shocked. Wanting to show him that it was necessary sometimes to meet the needs of the brethren, the old man said to him, "Put an arrow in your bow and shoot it." So he did. The old man then said, "Shoot another," and he did so. Then the old man said, 'Shoot yet again," and the hunter replied "If I bend my bow so much I will break it." Then the old man said to him, "It is the same with the work of God. If we stretch the brethren beyond measure they will soon break. Sometimes it is necessary to come down to meet their needs." When he heard these words the hunter was pierced by compunction and, greatly edified by the old man, he went away. As for the brethren, they went home strengthened.
25. Abba Anthony said, "A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, 'You are mad, you are not like us.'"
30. Some say of Saint Anthony that he was "Spirit-borne," that is, carried along by the Holy Spirit, but he would never speak of this to men. Such men see what is happening in the world, as well as knowing what is going to happen.
32. Abba Anthony said, "I no longer fear God, but I love Him. For love casts out fear." (John 4.18)
From the Sayings of the Desert fathers, translated by Sr. Benedicta Ward.
http://ishmaelite.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-eight-sayings-of-st-anthony.html
