Week 2 - Monday

Bible Passage

Matthew 19:21

“Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”

Commentary

Beginning of the Life of Antony

“He was eighteen or twenty years of age when his parents died, leaving him guardian of his younger and only sister. One day, about six months later, he happened to enter the church when he was struck by the reading of the Gospel in which the Lord speaks to the rich young man: If you wish to be perfect, go sell all that you have, and give it to the poor; and come, follow me and you shall have treasure in Heaven”. Applying this to himself, he went home and distributed his land, a fertile farm of more than two hundred acres among the townspeople. He sold all his other belongings. He did not wish the goods of the world to hamper himself or his sister, and so he also disposed of the money received, giving it to the poor. Only a small sum was kept to provide for his sister.”