Quote for the Day

A brother asked Abba Poemen, 'An inheritance has been left to me, what ought I to do?' The old man said to him, 'Go, come back in three days and I will tell you.'  So he returned as it had been decided.  Then the old man said, 'What shall I say to you, brother?  If I tell you to give it to the church, they will make banquets with it; if I tell you to give it to your relations, you will not receive any profit from it; if I tell you to give it to the poor, you will not do it.  Do as you like, it is none of my business.'

-- Sayings of the Desert Fathers