Letter 689
To Maurianus the Monk.
If we keep stillness, and persevere in prayer and in psalmody within the monastery, and do not trouble those who live in the world, God himself brings those very people to us, providing for us and taking thought for us, and he compels them with eagerness to supply us with our bodily needs. And God takes thought for us, since we too take thought for the spiritual work.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ἐὰν ἡσυχάζωμεν, καὶ τῇ εὐχῇ καὶ τῇ ψαλμῳδίᾳ ἐν τῷ μοναστηρίῳ προσκαρτερῶμεν, καὶ μὴ παρενοχλῶμεν τοῖς κοσμικοῖς, ὁ Θεὸς ἐκείνους αὐτοὺς φέρει πρὸς ἡμᾶς, προνοῶν, καὶ φροντίζων ἡμῶν, καὶ ἀναγκάζει αὐτοὺς μετὰ προθυμίας ποιεῖν ἡμᾶς τὰς σωματικὰς χρείας. Φροντίζει δὲ ἡμῶν ὁ Θεός, ἐπειδὴ καὶ ἡμεῖς τοῦ πνευματικοῦ ἔργου φροντίζομεν.
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