When Abba Romanus was at the point of death...
Jul 17, 2008
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…his disciples gathered around him and said, “How ought we to conduct ourselves?” The old man said to them, “I do not think I have ever told one of you to do something without having first made the decision not to get angry, if what I said were not done, and so we have lived in peace all our days.”

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