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Date: 28 August 2007 02:51:31
Amma Syncletica said: If illness weighs us down, let us not be sorrowful as though, because of our illness and the prostration of our bodies, we could not sing. For all these things are for our good, for the purification of our desires. Truly fasting and sleeping on the ground are set before us because of our sensuality. If illness then weakens this sensuality, the reason for these practices is superfluous. For this is the great asceticism: to control oneself in illness and to sing hymns of thanksgiving to God.