Today is St Antony’s Day he was:

An Egyptian Christian A Desert Father

An Ascetic An Obedient Son

A Contemplative A Caring Brother

A Truth Lover A Cave Dweller

A Solitary Wanderer An Abba Father

A Fearless Spiritual Warrior

A Frugal Eater

A Fore Runner

A Miracle Worker

A Reconciler

A BELOVED SON

“He, indeed, did not hold time passed in his memory, but day by day, as if making a beginning of his asceticism, increased his exertion for advance, saying continually to himself Paul’s word about forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, and recalling also the passage in which Elijah the prophet says, the Lord… lives, before whom I stand today.

He observed that in saying today he was not counting the time passed, but as one always establishing a beginning…”

from The Life of Antony (251 -356AD) by Athanasius (295-373AD)