{"id":17933,"date":"2013-02-21T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=17933"},"modified":"2013-03-24T16:29:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T23:29:41","slug":"our-sins-and-the-sins-of-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/our-sins-and-the-sins-of-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Fathers: Our sins and the sins of others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesfromstillsong.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/saint-romuald-and-camaldolese-charism.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-17934\" alt=\"solitude\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/solitude1.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/solitude1.jpg 384w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/solitude1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px\"><em>Once there was a meeting of monks in Scetis, and they discussed the case of a guilty brother but Pior said nothing. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px\"><em>Afterwards he got up and went out, took a sack, filled it with sand, and carried it on his shoulders. He put a little sand in a basket and carried it in front of him. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px\"><em>The monks asked him, &#8220;What are you doing?&#8221; He answered, &#8220;The sack with a lot of sand is my sins; they are many, so I put them on my back and then I shall not weep for them. The basket with a little sand is the sins of our brother and they are in front of me, and I see them and judge them. This is not right. I ought to have my own sins in front of me, and think about them, and ask God to forgive me.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px\"><em>When the monks heard this, they said, &#8220;This is the true way of salvation&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once there was a meeting of monks in Scetis, and they discussed the case of a guilty brother but Pior said nothing. Afterwards he got up and went out, took a sack, filled it with sand, and carried it on his shoulders. He put a little sand in a basket and carried it in front of him. The monks asked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[1891,697,2034,2035,2036],"class_list":["post-17933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-desert-fathers","tag-humility","tag-pior","tag-scetis","tag-sins"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17933"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17936,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17933\/revisions\/17936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}