Week 2 - Friday

Bible Passage

Luke 14:26-27

"If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.

Commentary

St. Antony the Great

“Thus every person, as though prepared for battle, came down from the mountain, braving the designs of the devil and his demons. How many young women who had suitors, having only seen Antony from afar, remained unmarried virgins for Christ's sake. And people came also from foreign parts of the world to see him, and like all others, having got some benefit, returned, as though sent forward by a father. And certainly when he died, all as having been grieved as by death of a father, consoled themselves solely by their remembrances of him, preserving at the same time his counsel and advice..”