One day, Abba Moses was called join his brethren in passing judgement on a fellow Monk. He approached carrying a large sack on his shoulder, with a hole in it, with the dirt falling out behind him. He said to his brethren “I carry behind me my manifold sins where I cannot see them and I come to judge my brother.” Thus illumining all with God’s love, forgiveness and our need to repent for our own sins, the brethren then forgave the Monk and they all left in peace.

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