From torpor to hard work

sister Anna Maria Borghi

Certainly all of us know the fable “The Ant and the Grasshopper”, symbol of laboriousness and of negligence. Even the moral tradition opposes the virtue of industriousness to the vice of laziness and Saint Anthony too speaks about it in his Sermons. Let us remember what he wrote: “In our soul we always have to do something so that what Salomon said will not happen: ‘I passed by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man without sense. And behold! it was all overgrown with thistles; its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall broken down’ (Proverbs 24, 30-31). By the way where there is the torpor of laziness the thistles of bad thoughts will overgrow. So our soul must be sowed with the seed of predication”... (continue)

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