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St. Anthony of Egypt

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Saint Anthony - I'll Do Anything to Discipline My Body

I think we can see in Saint Anthony this just such a desire and love of God that he's like, I'll do anything to get to discipline my body. And there is a kind of the heroic aspect that appealed to a lot of people in Anthony's time which often compare monastics to athletes. Those people who make that, that commitment to show us what it really looks like to live a kind of undivided life.

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