{"id":1157,"date":"2013-06-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2013-06-01T22:56:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T03:56:58","slug":"1157","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=1157","title":{"rendered":"OLD AND WISE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"irc_mimg\"><a id=\"irc_mil\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;docid=Vie5gupf94bzfM&amp;tbnid=Z4nqcx8pVJHHQM:&amp;ved=&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fst-anthony-the-great.org.uk%2Fst-anthony-the-great%2F&amp;ei=RlOqUc9N2LzgA6eHgNgI&amp;bvm=bv.47244034,d.dmg&amp;psig=AFQjCNFUyFo9rzyICZs8T_7Y9faR6elcJw&amp;ust=1370203334503612\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 24px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stanthonythegreat.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/st-anthony-the-great-antonios-e1367189009528.jpg\" width=\"283\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>One of my favorite books is <em>The Life of St. Antony<\/em> by Athanasius.\u00a0 It is not a long read, but chock-full of fascinating stories.\u00a0 It is hard to know whether all the stories are true, but one thing is clear: there is much wisdom in it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We modern-day Christians tend to think heretics pose the primary danger to a church&#8217;s integrity, but St. Antony added another category: schismatics.\u00a0 These are folks who may be orthodox in doctrine, but divisive and so not committed to &#8220;preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.&#8221; (Eph. 4:3)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is some of St. Antony&#8217;s last counsel to fellow monks.\u00a0 By the way, St. Antony was nearly 105 years old!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Don&#8217;t grow idle in your labors.\u00a0 Live as though dying daily.\u00a0 Stay away from heretics like the Arians and stay away from schismatics.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(<em>The<\/em> <em>Life of St. Antony<\/em> by Athanasius)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite books is The Life of St. Antony by Athanasius.\u00a0 It is not a long read, but chock-full of fascinating stories.\u00a0 It is hard to know whether all the stories are true, but one thing is clear: there is much wisdom in it. We modern-day Christians tend to think heretics pose the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-spiritual-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}